An abandoned decaying oil tanker in the Red Sea could spill four times as much oil as the devastating Exxon Valdez disaster, the U.N. has warned.
Fears of an environmental, humanitarian and economic disaster are swirling around the FSO Safer tanker, which is moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen. The tanker is loaded with 1.1 million barrels of crude oil.
The U.N. Security Council discussed the tanker during a briefing Wednesday. In a statement delivered at the briefing, Mark Lowcock, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, explained that, on May 27, seawater began leaking into the ship’s engine room.
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