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An environmental catastrophe

An environmental catastrophe Indian oil tanker Pratibha Yamuna displays her scooped out starboard side the day after the ship caught fire off southern Japan on May 27. The tanker, weighing 26,450 tonnes, went up in flames in the East China Sea, sullying its waters with oil and triggering off a major environmental disaster. All the 34 crew members of the ill-fated tanker are reportedly missing

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