A crippled Iranian tanker that spilled millions of gallons of oil off the Moroccan coast was turned away Friday by Portugal.
Iran said the 100-square-mile spill occurred when the tanker, the Khark 5, exploded last month after one of its storage tanks was damaged in a storm.There has been no leakage from the tanker's two ruptured storage tanks since Monday, according to the Dutch salvage company Smit Tak. The 283,632-ton ship's original cargo was 72 million gallons of crude oil.
But nearby countries were turning the ship away from ports where it could transfer its remaining cargo of crude to a second vessel.