'Lives are cheap': Grief, anger as landslide rocks Myanmar's jade hills

Jade miners take photos at the mud pond where more than 50 people were killed in collapse, in Hpakant, Kachin, Myanmar April 28, 2019. REUTERS/Shoon Naing

HPAKANT, Myanmar/YANGON (Reuters) - When Brang Aung left home in early April, his wife pleaded for him to stay for their newborn son's naming ceremony, just a few weeks later.

Instead, the youthful 43-year-old returned to his job a three-hour journey away as a backhoe operator for a jade mining company, keen to earn money to support a growing family, four relatives told Reuters.