BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue officials say a landslide at a remote jade mine in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state has left at least one person dead and 70 missing and a search and rescue operation is underway.
Reports were scant from the area in Hpakant, which is the center of the world’s biggest and most lucrative jade mining industry.
It's a region where sporadic fighting has broken out between the Myanmar army and ethnic guerrilla forces.
A ceasefire in the region has been disrupted after a Feb. 1 coup ousted Aung San Suu Kyi and her elected government.
