Rio De Janeiro, Feb 20 (ANTARA News/RIA Novosti-OANA) - About 300,000 residents of Cascavel in Brazil`s western Parana state were left without drinking water when engine oil from an overturned tank truck polluted a local river, Brazilian media said on Sunday.

More than 5 metric tons of oil products leaked to the road and then to the river via drainage systems.

The local environmental authority IAP estimated environmental damage as "significant."(*)


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