Relatives pray next to a coffin containing a body of a victim following a landslide at a mining site in Hpakant, Kachin State City, Myanmar July 4, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
(Reuters) - University student Saw Myint Tun travelled hundreds of miles from home in February to work the jade mines of northern Myanmar in search of gems that might transform his family’s modest fortunes.
Instead, they offered funeral prayers for him there on Saturday, lighting candles on a plywood coffin and chanting Buddhist sutras for the 21-year-old, one of more than 170 people killed in a landslide on Thursday.
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