A landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar has killed at least 25 people.

According to initial reports, about 40 employees and an unknown number of irregular miners they were working on sunday When searching for jade, a massive wall about 300 meters high and 76 meters wide collapsed, The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported today.

Sudden collapse of the sand and stone wall above the lake at the bottom of the tank caused a little tsunami this dragged out a few workers.

Ten crews trying to rescue join the operation find and recover corpses stuck in the mud

Miners were digging for jade on the mountainside. They were surprised that the landslide dragged them into the lake.in Hpakant, a remote mountain range in the northern state of Kachin.

A member of the Burma Rescue Organization (Myanmar), who asked not to be named, told EFE on Monday: The accident may have happened due to heavy rain. During this time it struck the area.

Such events are common in Hpakant. epicenter of the world’s most lucrative and extensive jade mines and where miners work in extremely precarious conditions.

An avalanche buried more than 160 miners in July 2020 At least 54 people died a year ago when a landslide in another part of the mining complex, located about 800 kilometers north of the capital, Naypyido, was removing jade from excavated slopes amid torrential rain.

jade mines they are like a magnet to thousands of poor Burmese But in most cases the benefits are small and the risks high.

Burma is the world’s largest producer of jadeite, a precious variety of jade. It is sought after mainly in neighboring China, where it is mined in the Kachin Mountains and where most of the exports are made.