Up to 30 feared dead in two Hpakant landslips
Deadly landslips have brought more death to Kachin State as two separate collapses in one day at the Hpakant jade mines claimed an unknown number of victims. Local residents fear as many as 30 people may have lost their lives.
The first of the two landslides of 25 January occurred at about 3pm, when a 500-foot-high (150-metre) pile of tailings crumbled at Lone Khin village, not far from the slag heap collapse of 21 November 2015, which left 114 people dead and another 100 missing.
