China News Service, July 2 (Xinhua)-According to Agence France-Presse, at 6:30 a.m. local time on July 2, local time, a large-scale collapse occurred in the Pagan Emerald Mine in Myanmar, which has killed at least 162 people.
As of 10:45 am local time, 62 bodies of the victims have been found. At present, the police, fire brigade, and regional public welfare organizations are carrying out search and rescue work.
According to reports, on the morning of July 2, an earth landslide accident occurred in Huika Village, Pagan District, and nearly 200 individual jade mine pickers were washed away.
The Chief of the Pargan Police Department said earlier that he is currently investigating, and the specific details are not yet clear. In addition, the search and rescue work continued at 15:35 after being suspended for two hours.
According to previous reports, there are more than 600 mining areas in the local area, many of which are illegal mining, a total of 300,000 foreign workers from all over Myanmar.
The most serious accident in Myanmar’s previous mining collapse occurred in 2015. At that time, the number of people killed reached 100. The collapse in April 2019 killed more than 60 people.