Tag: #Hpakant
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‘Make it safer’: calls grow to reform Myanmar’s deadly jade trade
Hpakant, Myanmar, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):A torrent of water, rock and heavy sludge spun Sai Ko as he clung to a corpse to survive — a memory that still traumatises the young “jade-picker” three months after Myanmar’s worst-ever mine disaster. Heavy rainfall in July triggered a massive landslide in Hpakant — the green heart of Myanmar’s…