BP 'to pay billions for Gulf spill'
Oil giant BP has agreed to pay a criminal penalty amounting to billions of dollars for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the US coast, according to a person close to the deal.
Two BP employees face manslaughter charges over the death of 11 people in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that triggered the massive spill, said the source.
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