Volunteers dressed in personal protective equipment clean up the oil spill from the sunken fuel tanker MT Princess Empress, on the shore of Pola, in Oriental Mindoro province on March 7, 2023. - Reuters
MANILA (AFP): Dozens of people in the Philippines have fallen ill after oil from a sunken tanker washed up on their shores, officials said on Wednesday (March 8), as authorities struggled to reach the leaking vessel.
The Princess Empress was carrying 800,000 litres of industrial fuel oil when it sank more than a week ago off the central island of Mindoro, south of the capital Manila.
