{"id":81896,"date":"2020-07-04T09:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T01:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=81896"},"modified":"2020-07-04T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T02:07:36","slug":"update-death-toll-of-jade-mine-collapse-reaches-172-in-myanmars-northernmost-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=81896","title":{"rendered":"Update: Death Toll Of Jade Mine Collapse Reaches 172 In Myanmar&#8217;s Northernmost State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YANGON, July 4 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; Six more bodies were recovered, bringing the death toll of a jade mine collapse in Myanmar&#8217;s Kachin state to 172 so far on Friday, according to latest figures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have been carefully carrying out search and rescue operations, as there may be more landslides occurring at any time, and the operations were stopped for today,&#8221; U Kyaw Min, an official from Wai Khar village administration office, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident left 54 injured and they were brought to the township hospitals for treatment, the department&#8217;s earlier release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caused by monsoon rains, the landslide occurred at a jade mining site in Wai Khar village, Sate Mu village tract of Hpakant township at 8:00 a.m. local time on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a recent release from the Military True News Information Team, a 304.8-metre high cliff wall collapsed onto a tailing pond, at a suspended mining site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deadly landslides are frequent in Kachin state, known as land of jade, especially in Hpakant mining region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many local people make their living by jade scavenging in the region and most of the landslides are caused by the partial collapse of tailing heaps and dams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Death toll of Thursday&#8217;s tragedy, surpassed that of the major fatal landslide, which took place in the region in Nov, 2015, leaving at least 116 jade scavengers dead.&#8211; NNN-MNA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YANGON, July 4 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; Six more bodies were recovered, bringing the death toll of a jade mine collapse in Myanmar&#8217;s Kachin state to 172 so far on Friday, according to latest figures. &#8220;We have been carefully carrying out search and rescue operations, as there may be more landslides occurring at any time, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":81902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,286,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81896"}],"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=81896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}