This photo taken and received via an anonymous source on December 22, 2021 shows rescue officials searching for missing people after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin state. (Photo: AFP)The death toll from a landslide at an illegal jade mine in northern Myanmar rose to four on Dec. 23, rescuers said, warning that the dozens still missing are likely dead. Rescuers pulled three bodies from the nearby lake in Hpakant township near the Chinese border on Dec. 23, adding to the one found the previous day. The miners at Hpakant come from across Myanmar to scratch a living picking through the piles of waste left by industrial mining firms in hopes of finding an overlooked hunk of jade. The disaster "is a haunting reminder that lives too often come second to profit in the jade mines of Hpakant," Hanna Hindstrom, senior campaigner for Myanmar at Global Witness, told AFP.

Source: Ethiopian News December 24, 2021 06:49 UTC