Oil from tanker may reach Indian shores

New Delhi – India’s western coast faces one of its biggest environment threats as a marooned bulk-carrier could spill nearly 650 tons of furnace oil into the sea, a news report said on Sunday. The ship, Ocean Seraya, was wrecked on the Oyster Rock lighthouse in the Arabian Sea off Karnataka state’s Karwar coast on May 30. The ship split into two and its front keeps crashing into the rear portion which is wedged against a rock, the report said.