Tag: archipelago nation
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Ship runs aground off Mauritius with fuel aboard
Port Louis, Mauritius, March 8 (AFP/APP):Mauritius deployed its coastguard and armed forces on Monday after a Chinese-flagged trawler containing 130 tonnes of oil ran aground off the Indian Ocean archipelago nation. It is the second shipwreck in less than a year off Mauritius, after a tanker struck a reef in July and leaked 1,000 tonnes…