{"id":233295,"date":"2023-08-17T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=233295"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T04:22:46","slug":"death-toll-from-myanmars-jade-mine-collapse-rose-to-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=233295","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll From Myanmar&#8217;s Jade Mine Collapse Rose To 33"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YANGON, Aug 17 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; The death toll from the jade mine collapse in northern Myanmar&#8217;s Kachin State rose to 33 yesterday, local police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After three days of rescue operations, 33 bodies have been recovered,&#8221; a police officer in Hpakant told the media yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collapse took place at around 3:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, at the jade mine near Ma Na Village in Hpakant, the centre of Myanmar&#8217;s jade industry, with over 30 people reported missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t tell the exact number of people who went missing. Locals said 36 people were missing,&#8221; the police officer said, adding that, the figures could rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Adding to the 25 bodies already recovered until yesterday (Tuesday), eight more bodies were found today (yesterday) &#8211; seven in the morning and one in the evening, bringing the total death toll to 33,&#8221; Tarlin Mg, a resident in the Hpakant area, said, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rescuer efforts concluded at 4.00 p.m. for the day, with operations continuing today, he said.&#8211; NNN-MNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YANGON, Aug 17 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; The death toll from the jade mine collapse in northern Myanmar&#8217;s Kachin State rose to 33 yesterday, local police said. &#8220;After three days of rescue operations, 33 bodies have been recovered,&#8221; a police officer in Hpakant told the media yesterday. The collapse took place at around 3:00 p.m. local time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233301,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233295\/revisions\/233301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}