Split in two. A Japanese-owned cargo ship shipwrecked off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean has leaked more than 1,000 tons of fuel. 

Work has begun to remove the two pieces of the broken ship, while on land thousands of volunteers worked to clear oil washed up on beaches and stuffed fabric tunnels with sugar cane leaves and plastic bottles to create makeshift oil barriers. 

The spill is an ecological disaster for Mauritius. It took place near two environmentally protected marine ecosystems. 

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