Massive Landslide at Jade Mine in the Hpakant, Myanmar. Today, Jul 2020.

Massive Landslide at Jade Mine in the Hpakant, 🇲🇲 Myanmar. Today, Jul 2020. The Hpakant jade mine disaster was a mining disaster in which a landslide killed at least 174 miners, while at least 100 went missing, and an additional 54 people were injured in a jade mining site in the Hpakant area of Kachin State in Myanmar. The disaster took place on 2 July 2020 and is the deadliest mining accident to date in Myanmar. The day before the accident, authorities issued a warning against mining in the area due to heavy rainfall. This warning was ignored by many miners. The Myanmar Fire Services Department said that at the time of the incident, the open-pit mine, which was owned by a local business conglomerate, was inactive. According to news reports, the workers at the site were freelancing scavengers who were scouring the tailings of the mine. At 06:30 local time, heavy rains triggered the collapse of a heap of mining waste which came tumbling
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