(Adds two dead, details) DONETSK, Ukraine, June 8 (Reuters) - Two workers died in a Ukrainian mining accident and eight others were still missing, an industry official said on Monday. The accident, apparently caused by emission of gas and rock fall, took place 1,000 metres underground at 1100 a.m. (0800 GMT) at the state-owned Skochynsky mine near the eastern town of Donetsk. Thirty eight miners managed to reach the surface while three were found injured. "We have found two more. They were lying unconscious," a rescue official said. One other injured had been found earlier. Authorities have not called the accident an explosion -- frequently the cause of mine disasters in Ukraine. "There was an ejection of coal and gas," a spokeswoman for the state industrial inspectorate told Reuters. Interfax cited an industrial source as saying work using explosives had been carried out the evening before. A shaft caved in and is now under 12 metres of rubble, it reported. Accidents are common in Ukrainian mines, many constructed in the 19th century and barely modernised since Soviet times. More than 100 miners died in 2007 after three explosions in two weeks and a dozen died last year in similar blasts. An explosion in 1998 killed 63 miners at Skochynsky mine. (Reporting by Lina Kushch; writing by Sabina Zawadzki; Editing by Diana Abdallah)
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