Soldiers, police and volunteers pulled body after body from the rubble on Monday, as the death toll from a landslide near several jade mines in northernMyanmar reached 113, a local official said. More than 100 others were missing.
The collapse early on Saturday in Kachin state’s mining community of Hpakant was the worst such disaster in recent memory.
The accident occurred at a 60-metre-high mountain of earth and waste discarded by several mines.
Earlier, officials said the dead were mostly men who were picking through the waste and tailings in search of pieces of jade to sell. But officials said on Monday the accident occurred at about 3am, burying more than 70 makeshift huts where the miners slept.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/113-dead-100-missing-in-myanmar-jade-mine-landslide
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