Singapore Works to Clean Up Oil Slick After Tanker Accident
- Restaurants and beach venues close due to smell, fumes
- Government warns of pollution along much of the southern coast
WATCH: Clean-up operations took place over the weekend on the beaches of Sentosa Island after an oil spill at a nearby port spread to its waters.
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Like most residents in Singapore’s expensive seaside enclave on the resort island of Sentosa, Odhran Dodd’s weekend began with the stink of oil fumes.
“Oh, you could smell it from seven o’clock this morning,” Dodd said on Saturday at Sentosa Cove, a development favored by wealthy expats. “We certainly don’t get anything as putrid as this.”