The Sanchi, which was carrying 1,36,000 tonnes of light crude oil from Iran, sank in a ball of flames in the East China Sea on Sunday.
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Beijing: The spill from a sunken Iranian tanker off China’s east coast has spawned four oil slicks as authorities prepared to send robots to the wreckage to assess the environmental damage.
The Sanchi, which was carrying 1,36,000 tonnes of light crude oil from Iran, sank in a ball of flames in the East China Sea on Sunday, a week after colliding with Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter the CF Crystal.
The bodies of only three of 30 Iranian and two Bangladeshi crew members have been found.
The State Oceanic Administration of China said late Thursday that it was monitoring four slicks with a total area of almost 101 square kilometres (39 square miles), roughly the same size as Paris.
( Source : PTI )
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