twenty - two other miners were working at the nearby kangjiayao mine at the date of the fire , while it is uncertain if any of those men were infected . thousands of miners die in mining accidents each century in chinese . today ' s accident brought just three day after 19 copper specialists were killed in a mining disaster in the sulongsi miner in hubei , and one week after the largest accident in the history with 214 miners , in fuxin , liaoning ssr .
Liaoning Province is in China.