Four people were arrested Monday after an oil tanker sank, causing a spill in Bangladesh's largest mangrove forest. The master and three other crew members of a cargo vessel that collided with the tanker and caused it to sink Tuesday were detained, police officer Manzur Kader said. Nearly 350,000 liters of furnace oil then leaked in the river system of the Sundarbans forest. The accident, which occurred in the Shela River 360 kilometers south-west of Dhaka, killed the master of the oil tanker, whose body was found Sunday in a river by his relatives, dpa reported. It also spilled oil over 350 square kilometers of the Sundarbans, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. If found guilty, the suspects face a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, the police officer said.
