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Hopes fade for 100 missing after landslide

By Agencies in Yangon, Myanmar | China Daily | Updated: 2015-11-24 08:17

Hopes dimmed on Monday for 100 people still missing two days after a landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar.

The landslide smashed into a makeshift settlement, burying mine workers as they slept.

The death toll rose to 113 after nine more bodies were recovered on Monday. Most victims of the deadly landslide were ethnic people, a local police officer told Xinhua.

Hopes fade for 100 missing after landslide

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