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More than 50 feared killed in landslide at Myanmar jade mine: police

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AFP Yangon

Dozens are feared dead after a landslide in northern Myanmar's Kachin state engulfed jade miners while they were sleeping, local police said Tuesday, the latest accident in a notoriously dangerous industry.

"Fifty-four people are missing in the mud," a duty officer from the Hpakant police station in Kachin told AFP, adding that "there's no way they (the missing) could have survived.

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First Published: Apr 23 2019 | 4:20 PM IST

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