The death toll reached 110 after a landslide hit near a jade mine in northern Myanmar, with up to another 100 still missing, officials said Monday. "We have recovered about 110 bodies, but according to local people there are still more than 100 people buried," the administrator of Hpakant town, Tint Swe Myint, told dpa by phone. There was no precise record of how many people were in the area, he said. "Most of them are migrant people searching for small gemstones in the debris left by mining companies." The landslide took place on Saturday near jade and gold mines, when a slag heap collapsed following rains in Hpakant, 350 kilometres north of Mandalay, in Kachin State.
