In Mauritius, an island country in the Indian Ocean, which is suffering from the damage of an oil spill caused by a Japanese ship aground, more than 70,000 residents protested and held a large-scale demonstration demanding the resignation of the prime minister, questioning the failure to respond to the accident.

According to the AFP news agency, 75,000 people gathered in front of the Cathedral in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, to protest the government's response to the oil spill.

With just 1.3 million people in Mauritius, the protests are the largest in 40 years, AFP reports.

Many of the protesters wore black clothes as a sign of condolence.

The anger of the residents of Mauritius swelled when 34 dolphins were found dead or gasping for life on a nearby oil spilled beach.

Protesters raised the flag, called the country and demanded that Prime Minister Fravind Jugnot resign.

Lorette, a maritime safety expert, filed a lawsuit against the Mauritius Ministry of Environment, claiming that the Mauritius government is hiding the truth about the oil spill.

On the 25th of last month, the Japanese cargo ship Wakashio was stranded in a coral reef on the southeast coast of Mauritius, and the hull split and spilled over 1,000 tons of oil.

The seas in question are those of mangrove forests and endangered animals and plants.

Lake Wakashio is now two rivers, and the Mauritius government sank the front part of it underwater, but the back part is still stranded on coral.

Authorities in Japan and the UK are investigating the extent to which the oil spill will cause Mauritius, a tourism-dependent islander, to lose its ecological damage.