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Diesel Tanker Sinks Off Coast of Tunisia with 1,000 Tons of Oil Aboard

HeadlineApr 18, 2022

Salvage crews in the Mediterranean are racing to prevent an environmental disaster after a tanker carrying as much as 1,000 tons of diesel fuel sank off Tunisia’s southeastern coast on Saturday. It’s Tunisia’s largest maritime oil disaster since 2018, when a collision between a Tunisian tanker and a Cyprus-flagged ship spilled hundreds of tons of fuel into the sea.

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