That 6 miners should die in an unsafe mine is bad enough.
But it's what happened next that has really sickened people in the northern Chinese province of Liaoning.
The mine owner panicked and tried to cover up the deaths. A full 40 days later investigators who had been tipped off by a member of the public arrest of the mine's boss and an investor and uncovered a shocking web of local corruption.
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China's top coal producing province has been hit by the worst mining disaster of this year. Are authorities doing enough to prevent it from happening again? BON's Katie Fischer reports.