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Oil spill from sunken Iranian tanker now three times larger

Published Mon, Jan 22, 2018 · 09:50 PM
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Beijing

THE spill from a sunken Iranian tanker off China's east coast has more than trebled in size, just over a week after the ship sank in a ball of flames.

Authorities spotted three oil slicks with a total surface area of 332 square kilometres, compared to 101 square kilometres reported last Wednesday, the State Oceanic Administration said in a statement late on Sunday.

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