At least 100 people have died in a landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials said last night.
Those killed were thought to have been mainly itinerant miners, who scavenge through mountains of waste rubble dumped by mechanical diggers to make a living.
The landslide crushed dozens of flimsy shanty huts, where the workers had made their homes.
Rescue operations continue with the Myanmar Red Cross, army, police and local community groups, but officials say they have little hope of pulling people alive from the rubble.
Nilar Myint, an official from the local administrative authorities in Hpakant, northern Kachin, said: “We are seeing only dead bodies.”
Due to the fact that because the men were mostly migrant workers, authorities were struggling to identify any of those killed.
“They only live and work in this area but they come from many different places,” she said.
Myanmar is the source of virtually all of the world’s finest jadeite, an almost translucent green stone that is valued above almost all other materials in neighbouring China.
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