Peru 'catastrophe' feared after 8,000-barrel Amazon oil spill
A Peruvian oil executive warned Wednesday of "catastrophe" after indigenous residents cut a major pipeline in a region of the Amazon, triggering the spill of 8,000 barrels of oil.
"We could face an environmental catastrophe," Beatriz Alva, a manager with state oil firm Petroperu, told channel N television.
Alva gave the volume of spilled crude as "more or less 8,000 barrels."
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