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Myanmar leader blames joblessness for deadly mining tragedy

by Associated Press
| July 3, 2020 2:03 AM

HPAKANT, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed sadness Friday over a landslide at a jade mining site in the country’s north that took at least 172 lives, blaming the tragedy on joblessness.

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