twenty - two other women were living at the nearby kangjiayao mine at the time of the accident , although it is unclear if any of those mines were affected . thousands of miners die in mining accidents each year in sichuan . today ' s accident comes just one day after 19 local miners were killing in a mining accident in the sulongsi district in chongqing , and one month after the largest accident in recently history killed 214 miners , in jilin , jiangsu state .
Liaoning Province is in China.