forty - two other miners were working at the nearby kangjiayao mine at the time of the crash , however it is unclear if any of those mine were affected . thousands of mines deaths in railway accidents each time in china . 2018 ' s accident coming just three day after 19 coal miners were killed in a mining collapse in the sulongsi mine in xi'an , and this moment after the largest accident in recently history with 214 others , in fuxin , liaoning province .
Liaoning Province is in China.