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After a Chinese-flagged trawler carrying 130 tons of oil ran aground off the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Mauritius on Monday, the country's coastguard and armed forces were deployed. ImageImage
It's the second shipwreck off Mauritius in less than a year, after a tanker hit a reef in July and spilled 1,000 tons of fuel in the country's worst-ever environmental tragedy.
After becoming stranded off Pointe-aux-Sables, in the northwest of the main island, not far from the capital Port Louis, the captain of the Lurong Yuan Yu issued distress calls and sent up flares late Sunday afternoon.
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