内容摘要：A vendor selects a potato from the oven to prepare the popular Turkish stuffed baked potato dish known as “Kumpir” at Awaterfront square in Ortakoy, Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A vendor selects a potato from the oven to prepare the popular Turkish stuffed baked potato dish known as “Kumpir” at Awaterfront square in Ortakoy, Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

“He’s gone,” Betchie replied, tears streaming down her cheeks.By the time Betchie got to the scene, Marcelo — her Marcelo — was sprawled face-down in a pool of blood, his body lit by a halo of light from a bank of television cameras.

A crowd had gathered, held back just behind a strip of yellow police tape that blocked the road. They stared silently at Marcelo’s closed eyes, the blood stain on the back of his yellow shirt, the 13 numbered signs investigators had placed in the road beside each spent bullet.Just beside Marcelo’s limp fingertips was a small translucent packet of white methamphetamines.Three days after the shooting, Betchie’s boys are home playing video games on a cellphone beside the open casket that holds Marcelo.

Betchie is thinking about their life together. She is trying not to cry.“I keep wondering what will happen to me, to my children,” she says, explaining that her 39-year-old husband was their family’s sole breadwinner. “All we can do now is pray.”

Her mother-in-law insists the drugs found at Marcelo’s fingertips weren’t his — and weren’t there when he died. She doesn’t know who put them there, or why.

A chick, food and drinks are seen on top of the coffin of alleged drug user Marcelo Salvador in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Now a confidential review of Shell’s fleet of production ships, obtained by The Associated Press, plus internal company safety surveys and interviews with two whistleblowers, show that as recently as three years ago — almost 11 years after the Bonga spill — there were safety issues with the fleet, including the Bonga. The 2022 review found fault with the same systems involved in the Bonga spill. The whistleblowers said the problems risk another Bonga-type disaster.

like the Bonga are a critical part of the offshore oil industry. Often permanently moored in one location, they take oil from wells on the ocean floor and transfer it to tankers.The 2022 review of the Bonga was an attempt to address maintenance and safety problems in Shell’s oil production ship flotilla. It was authored by Shell senior maritime auditor Zubair Ali Khan. It found issues on several ships, ranging from corrosion to bad upkeep and poor firefighting systems, and cited a “lack of clear and established standards and processes.”

For example, the report noted “continuously deficient” systems for oil transfer and firefighting and lifesaving equipment. Oil transfer systems are what had failed in the massive 2011 spill, and in 2022, the problems on the Bonga with oil transfer systems were deemed “high risk.” Replying to a LinkedIn message, Khan declined to comment.Tony Cox, an accident investigator with decades of experience in the offshore oil industry, said it was concerning that transfer problems persisted on the Bonga 11 years after the giant spill given that transfers are a “recognized hazard” and “well known to be a potential point of spillage.”