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Photos: Catastrophic oil spill in Sunderbans wrecks havoc with rare ecosystem

Officials said the damage had already been done as the slick had spread to a second river and a network of canals in the Sunderbans.

FP Staff|Dec 12, 2014, 16:25:40 IST

[caption id="attachment_1846889" align="alignleft" width="940"] Oil from a Bangladeshi oil-tanker is seen on the Shela River in the Sunderbans in Mongla. The tanker carrying an estimated 357,000 litres of oil collided on 9 December with another vessel and partly sank in the Sunderbans' Shela river, home to rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins. AFP[/caption][caption id="attachment_1846893" align="alignleft" width="940"] In this photograph a Bangladeshi oil-tanker lies half-submerged after it was hit by a cargo vessel on the Shela River. AFP[/caption][caption id="attachment_1846895" align="alignleft" width="940"] In this photograph, oil from a Bangladeshi oil-tanker is seen on the Shela River in the Sunderbans. Officials warned that the oil spill from a crashed tanker is threatening endangered dolphins and other wildlife in the massive Sunderbans mangrove region, branding the leak an ecological "catastrophe". AFP[/caption]

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