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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 take on the junta, escalating attacks and bloody reprisals. Junta troops shelled Thantlang in weste...

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.