일본, 자국 화물선 기름 유출 모리셔스에 전문가팀 파견<br /><br />Good morning to our viewers across the globe, you're watching Arirang's 'The World Now'. I'm Kim Jae-hee.<br />Japan is sending a disaster relief team to Mauritius, after one of its oil-carrying cargo ships ran aground on the island nation situated in the Indian Ocean.<br />Japan's Foreign Ministry said Sunday that the six-member team will leave Japan on Monday.<br />The team consists of four experts from the Japan Coast Guard, one official from Japan's Foreign Ministry, and another from the Japan International Cooperation Agency.<br />They're expected to help clean up the oil spill, and advise the Mauritius government on its control work.<br />The Japanese-owned bulk carrier, carrying around 3-thousand-8-hundred tons of oil, ran aground on a coral reef on July 25th.<br />Fuel started leaking on last Thursday, and the government of Mauritius has declared a state of environmental emergency over the fuel leakage.<br />The owners and operators of the grounded ship had held a news conference in Tokyo on Sunday and apologized for the accident that has caused a massive amount of environmental damage.<br />"To the Mauritius residents and all relevant people, I apologize deeply from my heart for the tremendous inconvenience and worry caused."<br />
