Eleven people were killed and nine injured on Tuesday in when a truck carrying explosives went off at the entrance of an iron ore mining project in China, reported state media. Another 25 are trapped in the mine located in the northeastern province of Liaoning. The mine is in Liaoning province’s Benxi city and owned by Huamei Group Company. The workers were drilling a mining shaft when the truck exploded just after 4:00 pm near the entrance to the mine, CCTV said. The injured have been rushed to hospital. Benxi city officials have gone to the site to help with the rescue, CCTV said. Telephone calls made to the Huamei Group and the Benxi city government went unanswered. China’s government has taken action to try to improve the poor safety record at many mines. In May, an explosion at a small coal mine in China’s Hunan province killed two workers while another three are missing, the Hunan coal mine safety regulation bureau said. In December 2016, explosions in two separate coal mines in the Inner Mongolia region and in Heilongjiang killed at least 59 people. Earlier that year, 33 miners were killed in a colliery explosion in October in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing, and in September at least 18 were killed in a mine blast in the northwestern Ningxia region. In another incident that captivated the countrys attention, four miners were rescued in January 2016 after they spent 36 days trapped in a collapsed gypsum mine in eastern Shandong province. The incident drew comparisons to a 2010 mining accident in Chile, which saw 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days before their rescue.