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<p>An image made from a video released by British Petroleum shows drilling mud escaping from a broken pipe on the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday.</p>

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BP's top kill effort on Gulf oil leak fails
May 30, 2010 9 p.m.

BP's top kill effort on Gulf oil leak fails

Next attempt will take four days to implement

ROBERT, La. - BP admitted defeat Saturday in its attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak by pumping mud into a busted well, but said it's readying yet another approach to fight the spill after a series of failures.