At least 40 gem pickers are reported missing after another landslide occurred in a jade pit near Hpakant’s Melingchaung village on Feb. 28. 40 employees and three backhoes of the Shan Yoma Company — said to be engaged in illegal jade mining in the area — are thought to have been subsumed when a pile …
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Only two bodies recovered 24 hours after Hpakant jade pit disaster: over 100 feared dead.
Rescuers leading search and rescue operations at the site of yesterday’s landslide in a Hpakant jade pit say they have only managed to recover two bodies from the rubble. Close by, four further corpses have been retrieved from the site of another landslide which hit on Dec. 18, said Ko Jack, a member of the …
Hundreds missing after second Hpakant jade pit landslide this week
Hundreds of jade pickers are missing after a landslide occurred in a Hpakant mine this morning. The incident is the second mass casualty accident to occur in Burma’s jade capital this week after an incident on Dec. 18 also led to the death and disappearance of dozens of miners. The junta had ordered mining operations …
33 Brigade tells illicit Hpakant miners to hide equipment during military investigation of halt order
The Tatmadaw’s Hpakant-based 33 Brigade yesterday verbally ordered mining operations to temporarily hide machinery whilst military authorities investigate whether a recent order to halt jade mining in the region is being observed, local businessmen told DVB. In a farce worthy of previous eras of military rule, the junta’s own Department of Mines had, with the …
Dyanmite explosions injure miners in Hpakant
Locals from Kachin State say they are worried about their safety after a villager was injured by dynamite blasts in the Hpakant jade mines.
Over 2 billion kyats in illicit narcotics seized in Hpakant
Police seize a stash of illicit narcotics worth 1.6 billion kyats ($1.17 million) and arrest two suspects at a checkpoint in Lel Pyin village, part of Kachin State’s Hpakant Township, with a follow-up search of the accused possessors’ property yielding an additional 700 million kyats in drugs.