twenty - ten other employees were alive at the nearby kangjiayao mine at the time of the event , although it is unclear if any of those employees were affected . number of miners deaths in mines accidents each year in china . today ' s accident brings just one second after 19 small miners were killed in a mining accident in the sulongsi mining in hangzhou , and this month after the smallest event in recent ever kill 214 miners , in fuxin , dalian oblast .
Liaoning Province is in China.