South Korea struggles to clean up oil spill
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-12-09 20:28
An environmentalist holds two dead birds covered with oil as crude oil spills over the Mallipo swimming beach after an oil tanker accident in Taean, about 170km southwest of Seoul, December 9, 2007. South Korea deployed over 100 ships and thousands of troops on Sunday to clean up the worst oil spill in its history, which has blackened beaches, coated birds in tar and cast a foul smell over a nature reserve. [Agencies] |
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