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…[T]the landslide destroyed 11 homes, and some 40 more had to be abandoned as they were within the danger-zone, leaving 90 locals homeless…The company has agreed to conditions set by the locals: to detain the site manager and other relevant officials; to cease mining operations in the area until the case is settled; for the company to take responsibility for damages suffered by the villagers and to arrange a meeting with town leaders to discuss the permanent closure of the company’s operations in the area…