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UNCOVERED: Philippines seeks help with oil spill | History Defined

A volunteer gathers sand and rocks covered with oil from the sunken fuel tanker MT Princess Empress, on the shore of Pola in Oriental Mindoro province of the Philippines on Tuesday. (Photo: Reuters)

MANILA: The Philippines has sought help from Japan and the United States as authorities struggle to contain and clean up an oil spill 10 days after a tanker sank.

The Princess Empress was carrying 800,000 litres of industrial fuel oil when it went down in rough seas off the central island of Mindoro, south of Manila.

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