MANILA: An oil tanker sinking in the Philippines has spilled oil into the sea, prompting a fishing ban in 7 cities.
According to the Associated Press, oil has spilled into the sea as a result of the sinking of an oil tanker in the Philippines. There were 800,000 liters of oil in the tanker. are on
Fishing and swimming have been banned in at least seven coastal cities after an oil spill from a Philippine tanker that sank southwest of the capital, Philippine officials said Thursday.
The Philippine Coast Guard said that the MT Princess Empress, which had 20 crew members and about 210,000 gallons of oil on board at the time of the sinking, sank after its engine overheated during the voyage.
After the sinking of the tanker, the spill of oil into the sea has posed a serious threat to the environment, the Philippine authorities have started the search for the tanker and efforts to stop the flow of oil.
LOOK: Submerged oil tanker MT Princess Empress leaves behind dead fish and seabirds on the shores of Oriental Mindoro.
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According to Coast Guard officials, the crew was rescued by a passing foreign cargo ship and brought ashore. As of Wednesday, the oil spill has affected a stretch of sea around 6 km long and 4 km wide from Nujan town.
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