Dreams of Myanmar's 'unwashed' jade miners buried by disasterThousands of people flock to the Myanmar jade mines in the hoping of finding an overlooked rock that could transform their lives. But only three would return, the others victims of Myanmar's worst-ever mine disaster after a landslide in heavy rains entombed at least 174 people, with scores more feared missing. "One day, if I get quality stone I will be a Lawpan (a boss of the jade miners)... Dozens of the unidentified were buried on Saturday in mass graves gouged into the red earth -- an anonymous end far from home. Than Niang's wife had to check 60 battered bodies before finding her husband, a grim catalogue of those at the end of the jade chain.

Source: Bangkok Post July 05, 2020 06:56 UTC