Three seafarers have died after inhaling poisonous chemicals inside a bulker docked in Oman.

The Asian men were suffocated on an unnamed vessel at Sohar on Saturday evening, according to the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA).

The Time of Oman cited a tweet from PACDA saying: “These people got trapped after they fell inside a storage compartment of a cargo ship, which was anchored at the port of Sohar.