BANGKOK, Jan 29 — A beach in eastern Thailand was declared a disaster area today as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand continued to wash ashore and blacken the sand.
Some of the oil reached the shoreline at Mae Ramphueng beach in Rayong province late yesterday after spreading over 47 sq km of sea in the gulf. About 150 SPRC workers and 200 navy personnel had been deployed to clean up the beach and oil boom barriers had been set up, the navy said.
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