An emergency campaign is currently being conducted to clean up an oil spill caused by a sunken tanker affecting popular beaches and bays in Athens’ Argo-Saronic gulf, according to The Guardian. Officials are describing the spill as an ecological disaster after thick tar and oil pollution moved towards the residential coastal regions, the report said. Mayors in suburbs south of Athens were forced to close beaches on Thursday because of health risks — four days after the 45-year-old Agia Zoni II sank off SalamÃna Island, the report said. “This is a major environmental disaster,” said the mayor of SalamÃna, Isidora Nannou-Papathanassiou. “Clearly the danger [of pollution] was not properly...
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