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Article: Owners, captains of two ships indicted for negligence in oil spill.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- January 22, 2008
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SEOSAN, South Korea, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors on Monday indicted the owners of the two ships that crashed and caused the worst oil spill in South Korean history last month, while the government started providing belated compensation to residents on the west coast. The Dec. 7 crash was "a case of mutual negligence" by Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. and the Hong Kong-registered Hebei Spirit Shipping Co., said Oh In-seo, a senior prosecutor in the prosecutors' office in Seosan, South Chungcheong Province.Over 12,000 tons of crude oil leaked into the West Sea off Taean County, South Chungcheong Province, when a Samsung barge carrying a crane separated from its ...