A 56-year-old seafarer has died in a fire on a Navibulgar ro-ro.

The Bulgarian inhaled smoke after the blaze broke out in his cabin on Navibulgar's 19,500-gt Geroite Na Sevastopol (built 1978) en route to Sochi on 9 March, the Dnevnik daily said.

The crew contained the fire. No one else was injured.

The cause is being investigated.