Two workers have died in a blaze at Russian shipbuilder Krasnoye Sormovo.

A production line caught fire at the Nizhny Novgorod facility on Wednesday, officials there said, according to the Prime news agency.

Another worker was injured in the incident.

“A fire on the shipyard line of Krasnoye Sormovo occurred during repairs due to a short circuit in the steering wheel mechanism,” an official was quoted as saying.