More than 30 dolphins dead since oil spill near southern Russia, experts say

Rescuers work to clean up tonnes of fuel oil that spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers more than two weeks ago in the Kerch Strait (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

Thirty-two dolphins have died since fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, an animal rescue group said.

The spill took place in the waterway which separates the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula from Russia’s southern Krasnodar region.