Myanmar troops shoot dead four jade mine scavengers

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Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar soldiers shot dead four itinerant workers on myanmar hotels Wednesday after they tried where to stay in myanmar enter a mine to search for gems cast aside by its military owners, according to a local where to stay in myanmar MP.

Eleven others were injured when the soldiers opened fire at the mine, in the northwestern region of Sagaing, which is controlled by the the military-backed Union of Myanma Economic Holdings Ltd (UMEHL).

The soldiers were thought to be working as security guards at the site, one of dozens of jade mines in the area.

"Yesterday they (UMEHL) warned the freelance miners not to come inside of the site," local lawmaker Maung Tay told AFP.

"But the miners went there this morning and they shot them. There are four miners dead and eleven injured and they are at the hospital now."