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Breaking -- Another landslide at a jade mine in #Myanmar has killed at least 50 people. https://news.trust.org/item/20200702044920-bbgvv/
@Shoon_Naing, @sam_aungmoon and @Simondlewis did an in depth-story on the issue last year. There have been complaints about safety in the industry - which has claimed scores of lives in recent years - for a long time but little has been done. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-mine/lives-are-cheap-grief-anger-as-landslide-rocks-myanmars-jade-hills-idUSKCN1SN0NB
The death toll has risen to over 100, with more still feared buried under the mud, making this the worst disaster in Hpakant in years. https://news.trust.org/item/20200702065527-sw70l/
Maung Khaing, a 38-year-old miner who escaped said he heard people shouting ‘run, run!'
"Within a minute, all the people at the bottom (of the hill) just disappeared... I still have goose bumps… There were people stuck in the mud shouting for help but no one could help them"
"Within a minute, all the people at the bottom (of the hill) just disappeared... I still have goose bumps… There were people stuck in the mud shouting for help but no one could help them"
“Now we recovered more than 100 bodies,” Tar Lin Maung, a local official with the information ministry, told Reuters by phone, “Other bodies are in the mud. The numbers are going to rise.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-mine/death-toll-in-myanmar-landslide-surges-past-100-idUSKBN2430M0
Than Hlaing, a member of a local civil society group, said those killed on Thursday were freelancers scavenging the waste left by a larger mining company. She said about 100 people were still missing and 30 had been hospitalized. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-mine/death-toll-in-myanmar-landslide-surges-past-100-idUSKBN2430M0
The death toll continues to rise. The fire department puts it at 162. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-mine-toll/death-toll-rises-to-162-in-myanmar-jade-mine-collapse-idUSKBN244067
The army chief put out a statement expressing sympathies with families last night. Nothing from the civilian government, more than 24 hours after the disaster.
Aung San Suu Kyi sparked some outcry when she wore this enormous jade necklace to a dinner during peace negotiations. Rights groups say the jade trade is controlled mostly by military elites and crony businessmen and funds the war in Kachin. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/daw-aung-san-suu-kyis-jade-necklace-at-peace-dinner-raises-questions.html
