Oil spill after ships collide off Germany
An oil tanker has collided with a freight ship off Germany, spilling more than 1,000 tons of oil into the Baltic Sea.
The accident happened about 15 miles north-west of the German coastal town of Darsser Ort, in international waters.
The tanker, registered in the Marshall Islands, and the Cypriot sugar freighter remained afloat and the leak from the tanker, carrying 33,000 tons of oil, was stemmed.
Falk Meier, the head of the German coastguard office in Stralsund, said the wind was blowing the spilled oil toward the Danish coast.
Two German and two Danish ships with oil containment equipment are heading for the scene.
