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Operations to drain 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil from a sunken tanker in Manila Bay has started, about three weeks after the vessel sank during a typhoon, the Philippine coastguard said on Wednesday. The ill-fated MT Terranova has a total of eight tanks, each containing 175,000 litres of industrial fuel oil, that will be drained during the operation, the coastguard said. The Terranova capsized off the city of Limay, around 40 kilometres west of the capital Manila on July 25, spilling an undetermined amount of its cargo into Manila Bay.The spill is affecting the livelihood of fishe…

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