A landslide at a Myanmar jade mine killed 14 people including at least one policemen, Reuters reported.

The incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday as earth and mud engulfed a guard post, and four people were missing and feared dead, police said.

The police chief in the area said 14 bodies had been recovered and four people, two of them policeman who were guarding the mining site, were missing.

At present, it is unclear how many of the dead are policemen.

The landslide occurred in the jade hub of Hpakant, in Kachin State of Myanmar, which is frequently hit by deadly accidents, despite government pledges to clean up the lucrative mining industry.