SINGAPORE: Two foreign workers died and five others were injured in a shipyard accident in Tuas Crescent on Wednesday.

Details are not available, but the police have confirmed that all seven workers involved are from India.

They were sent to hospital but two of them, who were in their 20s, died a few hours later.

Sources said the accident involved a gas leak, but this has yet to be confirmed.

The police and the Ministry of Manpower are investigating. - CNA/de