More Than 50 Feared Dead in Landslide in Myanmar’s Mine: Police

Police said that four-five people are missing in the mud.

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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."

(This is a developing story)

(Published in arrangement with PTI)