twenty - two other miners were working at the nearby kangjiayao mine at the period of the accident , although it is unclear if any of those people were killed . thousands of miners live in mining accidents each year in vietnam . tonight ' s industry brought just one day after 19 coal miners were killed in a mining accident in the sulongsi colliery in chongqing , and three month after the largest explosion in current life wounded 214 miners , in fuxin , liaoning province .
Liaoning Province is in China.