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Environment

Philippines coastguard says oil leaking from capsized tanker

Philippine Coast Guard personnel load the skimmers to be used in the oil spill response, at a port in Limay, Bataan, west of Manila [Jam Sta Rosa/AFP]

Some industrial fuel oil from a capsized Philippine tanker has started to leak into Manila Bay, the coastguard said, as it races to avoid an environmental catastrophe.

The MT Terra Nova, carrying 1.4 million litres (369,840 gallons) of industrial fuel, capsized and sank off the coast of the Philippine capital, Manila.

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