Clean-up crew: Navy personnel working to remove debris washed ashore from the Singapore-registered container ship ‘MV X-Press Pearl’, burning for the eight consecutive days in the sea off Sri Lanka’s Colombo Harbour, on a beach in Colombo. — AFP
The Sri Lankan authorities were on Wednesday trying to douse a massive fire that has raged for six straight days aboard a container ship near Colombo’s coast, to avoid a chemical as well as an oil spill.
Firefighters were still trying to bring the flames on the Singapore-registered ship called X-Press Pearl under control, after it intensified following large explosions the previous day.
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