Tunisia seeks to control environmental damage after fuel ship sinks
STORY: Tunisia seeks to control environmental damage after fuel ship sinks
DATELINE: April 18, 2022
LENGTH: 00:02:00
LOCATION: Tunis
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT
SHOTLIST:
1. various of Gabes coast in southeastern Tunisia
2. various of a Tunisian navy ship
3. various of area around the sunken ship
STORYLINE:
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Sunday directed the navy to control the environmental impact from a sunken fuel ship to prevent possible disasters, according to a statement by the Defense Ministry.
"All available means will be harnessed, in coordination and consultation with authorities and regional committees to confront disasters in order to prevent the leakage of hydrocarbons into the sea," the ministry statement said.
A number of countries have expressed their desire to provide assistance to contain the damage, it added.
A merchant ship carrying about 750 tonnes of fuel sank off the Gabes coast in southeastern Tunisia on Friday evening, with all seven crew members on board rescued.
The Equatorial Gui
- Product Code
- ILEA000955608
- Registered date
- 2022/4/18 00:00:00
- Credit
- Xinhua / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Xinhua News Agency.All Rights Reserved
- Media size
- 1920 × 1080 pixel
- Deployment size
- 120.29(MB)*
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.