Guimaras officials and residents have reported a case of fish kill along the coast of a village contaminated by bunker fuel from a sunken vessel. Teresita Siason, coordinator of the Guimaras provincial risk reduction and management office (PDRRMO), said an undetermined volume of dead fish were reported in the waters off Barangay (village) Hoskyn in the capital town of Jordan. The Guimaras PDRRMO reported that three villages were contaminated and five others are threatened by bunker fuel coming from the sunken MV Sportigo. Siason said aside from Hoskyn, also contaminated were the villages of Rizal in Jordan and Sawang in Buenavista town. Those threatened include Santo Rosario, Magsaysay, Zaldivar, Dagsaan and Montpiller, all in Buenavista.

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