Myanmar: One Dead, Several Injured as Mine Accident Floods Village

Sep 24, 2015 | Ko Htwe & Yamin Oo, Democratic Voice of Burma
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A 12-year-old child was killed and several elderly residents were injured when the embankment of a tailing pond at a mine site collapsed, triggering a landslide and flooding in the nearby village of Kanbauk, Tenasserim Division, some 77 kilometres north of the region’s capital Dawei. The mine site is operated by Burma-based mining firm Delco Mining.