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EU, UN experts to help combat South Korean oil spill

Environmental experts from the European Union and the United Nations were heading to South Korea to help battle the country’s worst oil spill, UN spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said in Geneva.

Byrs, of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said the four experts from each body would evaluate the needs of the South Koreans and if necessary arrange for more equipment to be sent to the scene.

She said the South Korean govenment had requested the aid to help disperse a huge oil slick and clean up tourist beaches and scores of marine farms already fouled by the crude oil.

A supertanker holed by a drifting barge spilled some 10,500 tonnes of oil into the Yellow Sea on December 7. Four decontamination experts from the US Coast Guard have already arrived to help while equipment has been supplied by China, Japan and Singapore.

Geneva, Sunday, AFP

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