MAURITIUS OIL SPILL — Mauritius police detain captain of oil spill vessel

The captain and second-in-command of a ship that ran aground off the coast of Mauritius on 25 July, spilling hundreds of tons of oil into the sea in the vicinity of a nature sanctuary, were arrested on Tuesday.

The captain of the Japanese-owned and Panamanian-flagged MV Wakashio cargo ship, Indian citizen Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, and his second-in-command Sri Lankan Tilakara Ratna Suboda both appeared in court. EFE-EPA

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Source: efe.com , English edition