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Reuters Last Part of Prestige Tanker Sinks off Spanish North West Coast

Date: 21-Nov-02
Country: SPAIN
Author: DB

Last Part of Prestige Tanker Sinks off Spanish North West Coast Photo: HO
Photo: HO

The tanker laden with 70,000 tonnes of fuel oil split in two and sank, triggering what ecologists said could become one of the world's worst oil spills.

Picture taken on November 19, 2002.

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