Thai navy personnel battled on Monday to clean up a beach on a popular tourist island after oil from a pipeline leak washed up in a national park.

Roughly 50,000 litres of crude oil gushed into the sea on Saturday about 20 kilometres off the coast of the eastern province of Rayong, operator PTT Global Chemical said.

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