What the records say
- When
- 2 Jul 2020
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 25.48° N, 96.26° E
- Description
- At least 162 people are killed in a landslide at the Wai Khar jade mine site in the Hpakant area of Kachin State.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2020 Hpakant jade mine disaster.
2020 Hpakant jade mine disaster
Landslide in Myanmar
On 2 July 2020, a major landslide at the Wai Khar jade mining site in the Hpakant area of Kachin State, Myanmar, killed between 175 and 200 miners in the country's deadliest-ever mining incident. At 06:30 local time (MMT) heavy rains triggered the collapse of a heap of mining waste, which came tumbling down into a lake.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Hpakant maden faciası”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “مقتل ما يزيد عن 162 وإصابة 54 شخصًا في انهيار أرضي في منجم باكنات جيد في ميانمار، إثر هطول الأمطار”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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