OITA (Kyodo) Police have determined that three workers who died Saturday after collapsing inside an ore ship docked at a smelter in Oita suffocated.
The Oita Prefectural Police made the announcement after inspectors from the Japan Transport Safety Board began an on-site examination of the ship at the facility of Nikko Seiren, a Tokyo-based smelter of nonferrous metals.
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