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Oil leak in Peru tourist zone triggers 'environmental emergency'
Oil leak in Peru tourist zone triggers 'environmental emergency'
Economy
by  AFP

Peru has declared an "environmental emergency" after an oil spill that triggered a clean-up operation on a stretch of northern coastline popular with tourists. The leak was detected last Friday on Las Capullanas beach when the crude oil was about to be loaded onto a tanker, the company said at the weekend without specifying the cause or amount of oil spilled.