The condition of the MV Wakashio was worsening early on Saturday and it split by the afternoon, the Mauritius National Crisis Committee said.

The MV Wakashio has spilled 1,000 tons of its cargo of 4,000 tons of oil into the sea, fouling the coastline of Mauritius, including a protected wetlands area.

The Japanese ship, MV Wakashio, ran aground on a coral reef on July 25, cracked two weeks later and spilled an estimated 1,000 tons of oil into the Indian Ocean.

Mauritius tried to persuade judges at the World Court that it was illegally stripped by Britain of an Indian Ocean archipelago that's now home to a major U.S. air base.

Three pieces of debris found washed ashore in Mozambique and the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius will be examined by investigators in Australia to see if they came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, officials said Thursday.

Malaysian officials say the discoveries aligned with the modeling pattern established by experts of where debris would drift from a crash in the southern Indian Ocean.

Malaysia's government said Thursday that two more pieces of debris, discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, are "almost certainly" from Flight 370.

A powerful tropical cyclone has formed in the Southern Indian Ocean, threatening the small island of Mauritius.