Another barge sinks in Nile (Egypt) – oil spill 2

Posted Thursday, 23.9.2010, 11:17 am h

Less than two weeks after a river boat sank and spilled oil into Egypt’s Nile River, a second barge has sank near the same spot close to Aswan in southern Egypt, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported.

“We are monitoring what has happened and will ensure that any environmental damage is immediately taken care of,” the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) told Bikya Masr on Thursday morning.

According to the report, the boat sank near Naga Hammadi in the Qena governorate, some 300 miles south of Cairo. The EEAA said there are teams of officials already on the scene looking into what had happened and will gauge the response needed.

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