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(Reuters) - Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.

Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday (Dec 22) at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports. The landslide in the Hpakant area of Kachin State happened at around 4am (2130 GMT on Tuesday) (5.30am Singapore time) and there were fears that about 80 people had been...

Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.

Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media report

Authorities fear that about 80 people had been swept into a lake by mining waste following a landslide in the Hpakant area of Kachin State

Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.

Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.

MYANMAR <strong>Military shells restive town</strong> The military on Friday shelled a restive western town, with an ensuing fire destroying dozens of houses, as well as the office of charity Save the Children, witnesses and local media reported. The Southeast Asian country has been in chaos since a coup in February, with more than 1,200 people killed in a crackdown on dissent, data compiled by a local monitoring group show. Across Myanmar, “self-defense forces” have sprung up to...

Residents in Thantlang have been forced to flee amid an ongoing military crackdown on dissent.

An office of charity Save the Children is also destroyed as troops shell a restive western town, say observers.. Read more at straitstimes.com.