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Cleaning workers pick oil remains up from the sea

Video. Peru oil spill clean up ongoing after volcano eruption in Pacific

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Oil, think and deadly, continued to wash up on beaches in Lima, two days after an Italian-flagged ship was loading oil into La Pampilla when strong waves moved the boat and caused the spill.

Peru responders continue to clean oil off Cavero beach, one of several areas affected by an oil spill from an Italian-flagged ship.

The waves causing the spill originated from an eruption of an undersea volcano in the South Pacific nation of Tonga.

Clean up crews wearing hazmat suits shovelled crude oil into wheelbarrows.

Local fishermen fear that the damage is far greater than the government is letting on.

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