13 killed, 20 injured in land waste collapse in Myanmar

Rescue workers carry the body of a miner in Hpakan, Myanmar's Kachin state, May 24, 2016. A total of 13 people were killed, 20 injured and 100 others missing on Monday night due to a collapse of land waste from a jade mine in Hpakan township in Myanmar's Kachin state, U Tint Soe, representative of Hpakan township, told Xinhua Tuesday. (Xinhua/Zaw Moe) 

YANGON, May 24 - A total of 13 people were killed, 20 injured and 100 others missing on Monday night due to a collapse of land waste from a jade mine in Hpakan township in Myanmar's Kachin state, U Tint Soe, representative of Hpakan township, told Xinhua Tuesday.

The land waste was from a jade mine undertaken by Yadanar Sin company and located near Gwe Kha Hmaw village in Hpakan township. The victims were searching pieces of jade on the land waste when the land waste collapsed.

A local emergency worker said that the missing people were feared dead.

It is difficult for emergency workers to rescue as there is no machines. Moreover, a small collapse of land waste had occurred Tuesday morning 7 a.m. local time when the emergency workers were searching for the missing people, he added.

A total of 13 people were also killed and four others injured due to a landslide in Hpakan in early this month.

At least 100 people were killed in a landslide in Hpakan in November 2015. Over 40 landslides occurred in this town in 2015.