Volunteers bury bodies of miners in a mass grave while relatives look on during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant, Kachin State on July 3. (AFP)
Volunteers bury bodies of miners in a mass grave while relatives look on during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant, Kachin State on July 3. (AFP)

Mass burial for scores killed in jade mine disaster

Dozens of jade miners were buried Friday in a mass grave after a landslide in northern Myanmar killed over 170, most of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border.

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