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April 18, 2022

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