Koreans struggle to clean up oil blackened shores

Thousands of people, some battling headaches and nausea from the stench of crude oil, used shovels and buckets to clean the muck from a once-scenic beach today after South Korea’s worst oil spill.

About 7,500 people including Coastguard, police and military personnel, as well as civil servants and volunteers, were scooping up oil that began washing ashore at Mallipo beach a day earlier from a damaged supertanker, the Coast Guard said.