Peru 'catastrophe' feared after 8,000-barrel Amazon oil spill

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Last Updated : Nov 29 2018 | 7:10 AM IST

A Peruvian oil executive warned Wednesday of "catastrophe" after indigenous residents cut a major pipeline in a region of the Amazon, triggering the spill of 8,000 barrels of oil.

"We could face an environmental catastrophe," Beatriz Alva, a manager with state oil firm Petroperu, told channel N television.

Alva gave the volume of spilled crude as "more or less 8,000 barrels."

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First Published: Nov 29 2018 | 7:10 AM IST

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