Mauritius scrambles to counter oil spill from grounded ship
Mauritius scrambles to counter oil spill from grounded ship

Residents of Mauritius stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves to createmakeshift oil spill barriers after as tons of fuel leaking from a groundedship put endangered wildlife in further peril.

The government has declared anenvironmental emergency and France said it was sending help.

Satellite imagesshowed a dark slick spreading in the turquoise waters near “very sensitive”wetlands.