One dead, 70 missing in a landslide at a mine in Burma

Naypyidaw-Sana

Relief teams in Burma announced today the death of one person and the loss of more than 70 people due to a landslide in a jade mine in the north of the country.

Agence France-Presse quoted a relief spokesman as saying that the number of missing people may reach 100 as a result of the landslide in the Pakant jade mine in Kachin state, pointing out that the body of one person was found and 25 wounded were taken to hospital.

Last year, torrential monsoon rains caused the worst disaster, with 300 miners buried in a landslide in Mount Bakant in the middle of the mining area near the Sino-Burmese border.

Several accidents of landslides occur in this poor and rugged region, which has become similar to the surface of the moon due to the intensive activities of mining groups at the expense of the environment, while Burma achieves very large revenues from this work.

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