(Reuters) - Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early on Wednesday at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.

       The landslide in the Hpakant area of Kachin State happened at around 4 am local time and there were fears about 80 people had been swept into a lake by mining waste, an official at the Kachin Network Development Foundation, a civil society group, told Reuters.

       The Mizzima news portal also reported dozens appeared to be missing in the landslide.

       (Reporting by Reuters Staff, Writing by Ed Davies; Editing by Himani Sarkar)