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Oil spill reaches Langstrand Buy Floris Steenkamp
Local
Oil is washing ashore as far as Langstrand, following an oil spill in the port of Walvis Bay on Sunday. Residents notified the Directorate of Maritime Affairs which in the meantime confirmed the oil found on the beaches is heavy fuel oil and originates from the oil spill in the port of Walvis Bay. Continues on page 2
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Oil spill update
Hit and run Eileen van der Schyff
It was reported on Thursday morning that, yet another pedestrian was knocked down in Hanganeni Swakopmund. The woman identified as thirty-six-
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Mass bird scare ends in deadly havoc in Walvis Bay
Locker vom Hocker
Eileen van der Schyff People had to look on helplessly on Wednesday as dozens of juvenile Swift Tern chicks, also referred to as Greater Crested Tern, were ran over by vehicles in Walvis Bay's Hannah Mupetami Road. The chicks, that cannot yet fly, were startled by something in their nests high above the ground on the roof of a nearby warehouse. The birds fluttered to the ground and were scrambling in all
directions, including into the busy Hannah Mupetami Road. Motorists were caught totally unaware and more than sixty chicks were killed under the wheels. Employees at a vehicle spare parts dealer,
Greg's Motor Spares, witnessed the tragedy unfolding. They ran to stop approaching vehicles and others grabbed empty cartons, frantically picking up birds, filling up the cartons and bringing
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Africa Inline Hockey Cup
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