The battered bodies of more than 120 jade miners were pulled from a sea of mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar after one of the worst-ever accidents to hit the treacherous industry.
Scores die each year while working in the country’s lucrative but poorly regulated jade industry, which uses low-paid migrant workers to scrape out a gem highly coveted in China.
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