Shipyard Blast Kills 3
<i> Associated Press</i>
LISBON, Portugal —
Three shipyard workers died in an explosion in the hold of an oil tanker they were cleaning, newspapers reported Sunday. The blast occurred Saturday afternoon on the Rapana, a tanker undergoing repairs in the Lisnave shipyards across the Tagus River from Lisbon. Cause of the blast was not known.
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