Oil Spill Reaches South Korea Shoreline

December 8th, 2007 in Space & Earth / Environment
Oil Spill Reaches South Korea Shoreline (AP)

Local residents try to remove dense crude oil at the Mallipo beach, west of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007. Some 2.7 million gallons of oil gushed Friday from a 146,000-ton Hong Kong-registered supertanker after a barge carrying a crane slammed into it about seven miles off Mallipo beach. The spill was the country's largest, involving twice as much oil as a spill in 1995. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

(AP) -- Residents and emergency workers used buckets to remove dense crude oil from South Korea's western shore as the Coast Guard struggled in high waves and strong winds to contain the country's largest oil spill Saturday.

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