Rescuers recover bodies near the landslide at the jade mining site in Hpakant, Kachin State on July 2. (AFP)

Death toll rises to 162 in Myanmar jade landslide

The battered bodies of more than 160 jade miners were pulled from a sea of mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar's Hpakant Township on Thursday.

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