India has sent technical equipment and a team of specialists to Mauritius to help local authorities deal with an environmental crisis after an oil spill, Reuters cited a government official as saying on Sunday. A Japanese bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island nation on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tons of fuel oil and triggering a state of "environmental emergency." The carrier split on Saturday, and the oil spill spread over a vast area of endangered corals, fish and other marine life in what some scientists called the country's worst ecological disaster.
