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Dozens sick after Philippine oil spill

Coast guard personnel and volunteers collect debris covered with oil during a clean-up along the coast at Pola in Oriental Mindoro province of the Philippines, days after an oil spill from a sunken tanker. (Photo: Philippine Coast Guard via AFP)

MANILA: Dozens of people in the Philippines have fallen ill after oil from a sunken tanker washed up on their shores, officials said Wednesday, as authorities struggled to reach the leaking vessel.

The Princess Empress was carrying 800,000 litres of industrial fuel oil when it sank more than a week ago off the central island of Mindoro, south of the capital Manila.

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