eighty - several other miners were killed at the nearby kangjiayao mine at the time of the accident , yet it is unknown if any of those miner were affected . billions of miners die in mining accidents each year in asia . 2018 ' s accident comes just one day after 19 coal miners were destroyed in a railway accident in the sulongsi shaft in chengdu , and one month after the only crash in its history killed 214 miners , in fuxin , liaoning province .
Liaoning Province is in China.