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Philippine tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of oil capsizes in Manila Bay

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Coast guard personnel collects water sample from of an oil spill in the waters off Naujan, Oriental Mindoro. [AFP photo]

A Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil capsized and sank off Manila on Thursday, authorities said, as they raced against time to contain the spill.

The MT Terra Nova had been heading for the central city of Iloilo when it sank in Manila Bay, nearly seven kilometres (4.3 miles) off Limay municipality in Bataan province, near the capital, in the early hours.

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