eighteen - nineteen other miners were working at the nearby kangjiayao plant at the time of the incidents , where it is unclear if any of those mine were affected . thousands of miners die in colliery accidents each decade in china . 2017 ' s accident , just one day after 19 colliery miners were engaged in a mining accident in the sulongsi mine in chongqing , and one months after the largest accident in current time killed 214 mines , in fuxin , jiangsu region .
Liaoning Province is in China.