Cleanup efforts were underway on the blackened coasts of Mindoro after spillage from a sunken oil tanker washed ashore, Environment Secretary Maria Antonia Loyzaga said as fears of economic and environmental harm grew. The oil spill off Naujan town on Mindoro island reached the shores of the next four municipalities on the island's east coast around noon on Thursday and appeared to be flowing further south, Loyzaga said in a statement.

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