Oil slick threatens Thai resort island

Thai navy personnel are struggling to clean up a 200,000-litre oil slick that threatens to pollute a popular island beach resort in eastern Thailand.

Tue, 22 Jan, 2002 - 08:52

Thai navy personnel are struggling to clean up a 200,000-litre oil slick that threatens to pollute a popular island beach resort in eastern Thailand.

The oil leaked from a Panamanian-registered tanker, the Eastern Fortitude, which hit rocks last Tuesday in the Gulf of Thailand, off the coast of Chon Buri province.

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