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Heavy rains trigger a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, the deadliest accident that the largely unregulated industry has seen in years.

The jade miners were smothered by a wave of mud.” Local activists have complained that the profitability of jade mining led businesses to neglect enforcing already very weak regulations in the …

A large landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar Thursday killed at least 113 people and left the fate of dozens more unknown, authorities said.

At least 113 people were killed Thursday in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, the government and rescue workers said, the latest in a series of deadly accidents at the sites in recent …

Advocacy group says powerful mine owners have created a “dystopian wasteland in which scores of people at a time are buried alive.” …

At least 116 people have died and others are feared trapped after a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State, according to officials.

The site in Hpakant is in Kachin state, the center of the world’s biggest and most lucrative jade mining industry.

The battered bodies of more than 120 jade miners were pulled from a sea of mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar on Thursday after one of the worst-ever accidents to hit the treacherous industry.

The Myanmar Fire Services Department said the incident took place in Hpakant area of Kachin state following heavy rainfall.

Video captured the moment a pile of mine waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a wave of mud and water that buried scores of workers.