At least 19 miners were killed and 18 others went missing in Ukraine in two separate accidents at coal mines. Interfax reported quoting disaster management authorities of Ukraine that 17 miners were killed after an explosion in a coal mine in the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine early on Friday. The blast took place in the Sukhodolsk-Vostochnaya coal mine at Krasnodon in the Lugansk region. 28 people were working at the pit when the explosion occurred. In a separate accident, two miners were killed when an elevator collapsed at the state-controlled Bazhanova mine in the town of Makiyivka in neighbouring Donetsk region. Nine workers were missing but officials said it appeared they were still alive and are trapped under the rubble.