Two Fesco crew have died in "strange circumstances" on an icebreaking cargoship en route to South Africa.

The 10,700-dwt diesel-electric vessel Vasiliy Golovnin (built 1988) was returning from a three-month mission to Antarctica.

A trade union representative in Primorsky Krai told the RIA Novosti agency that two men, born in 1988 and 1972, had died during the voyage to Cape Town on 25 April.