Tuesday, 19. November 2002
Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 11:04:44 AM CET
'Disaster' fears as tanker splits
The crippled oil tanker Prestige has split in two off Spain's north-west Atlantic coast, threatening one of the world's worst environmental disasters.
Environmental group WWF has previously warned that if all the fuel oil leaked, it would be one of the largest oil spills in the world -- about twice as big as the Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska in 1989.
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