One dead, at least 70 missing after landslide at Myanmar jade mine: rescue team

Last year heavy rainfall triggered a massive landslide in Hpakant that entombed nearly 300 miners. - AFP

YANGON (AFP): A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar on Wednesday (Dec 22) killed at least one person and left dozens missing, a member of the rescue team told AFP.

Scores die each year working in the country's lucrative but poorly regulated jade trade, which uses low-paid migrant workers to scrape out a gem highly coveted in neighbouring China.