Rescuers have found a body of another miner at the blast-hit Skochynsky mine in Donetsk, the Ostrov Web site quoted head of the regional department of the State Committee for Industrial Safety and Mining Supervision Maryna Nikitina as saying, Kyiv Post reported.

She said the body of the 10th victim of the blast found on June 11 had been already raised to the surface. The body of the 11th miner is being retrieved.

Thus the death toll reached 11 people. Two miners are still missing.

As reported, the explosion took place at the Skochynsky mine owned by the state-run enterprise Donetsk Coal Energy Company at 10.15 on June 8. The explosion was caused by a coal and gas emission. According to the Ukrainian authorities, there were 51 miners in the area at the time the accident occurred. A total of 344 miners were in the mine at the time of the blast

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