DR Congo oil tanker blaze 'kills 220'

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Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

The other oil tanker accidents from Africa really underline the fact that these things just happen there and it's smaller news then, say, the BP spill.

Mostly because there not US ships off the US coast.

What was that huge leak in the Gulf a few years ago... Ixtoc or something like that. Was a pretty big leak compared to the Horizon yet little was said about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill