Hangzhou (China), Nov 2
Maritime workers cleaned an oil spill at the mouth of the Yangtze river Monday, a day after an Iranian-registered freighter was stranded on rocks off east China.
The freighter "Zoorik" was stranded at around 5 a.m. Sunday at Luhuashan at the estuary of the Yangtze. Thirty-seven people on board, including a two-year-old boy, were rescued.
The freighter was damaged in the accident and fuel began to spill shortly afterwards. By 10 a.m. Monday, oil slick was visible on the water.
Xinhua news agency quoted the maritime bureau as saying that 30 cleaners aboard four vessels had been deployed at the site. But the clean-up was hindered by high winds of up to 100 km per hour.