forty - two other miners were worked at the nearby kangjiayao mine at the start of the accident , where it is unclear if any of those miners were affected . thousands of miners dies in various injuries each year in thailand . today ' s match , just one month after 19 coal users were killed in a mining accident in the sulongsi mine in zhejiang , and some day after the highest accident in recent decades killed 214 miners , in chongqing , heilongjiang province .
Liaoning Province is in China.