twenty - two other miners were working at the nearby kangjiayao mine at the time of the accidents , therefore it is no if any of those miners were affected . thousand of them are in mining incidents each year in korea . today ' s accident comes just the day after 19 coal men were killed in a miners accident in the sulongsi mine in chongqing , and one month after the major accident in recent historians was 214 miners , in changsha , liaoning province .
Liaoning Province is in China.