More than 90 dead, scores missing after landslide in northern Myanmar

The death toll from a landslide in northern Myanmar's
Kachin state crossed 90 on Sunday, with more than 100 people still
missing.
"More than 90 bodies were found so far," the administrator of Hpakant
town, Tint Swe Myint, told dpa by phone.
The landslide took place on Saturday near jade and gold mines, when a
300-metre pile of waste rock accumulated during the mining process
collapsed following rains in Hpakant, 350 kilometres north of
Mandalay.
Landslides are common in Hpakant, where 90 per cent of the world's
jade is mined.