A little past midnight on Sunday, June 23, people living on the Pasig River in Santa Ana were awakened by an overpowering stench—so bad that some of them were later brought to the hospital for treatment.

The toxic fume was caused by 15,000 liters of used oil that leaked to the river from a tank in an oil depot that had been operating without a permit for the past two decades.

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