Viral video shows ship dumping coal dust along Melaka coastline


MELAKA: An environmental advocacy group wants the state government to act against marine pollution along the shoreline of Pantai Puteri here.

Melaka Consumer Affair and Environment Association chairman Murali Krishna said local fishermen captured a video of a vessel dumping coal dust into the sea.

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