Three workers have been killed after fire struck a beached LPG carrier in Pakistan for the second time in less than a month.

Local reports said more shipbreakers were missing at plot 60 in Gadani after the blaze on the 49,999-dwt Rain (built 1986, ex-Gaz Fountain), which caught fire at the end of December.

Rescue sources were quoted as saying the flames have now been extinguished.

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