ON FIRE Sri Lanka’s Navy ship tries to douse fire as smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which has been burning for the ninth consecutive day in the sea off Sri Lanka’s Colombo Harbor, on a beach in Colombo on May 27, 2021. AFP PHOTO
ON FIRE Sri Lanka’s Navy ship tries to douse fire as smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which has been burning for the ninth consecutive day in the sea off Sri Lanka’s Colombo Harbor, on a beach in Colombo on May 27, 2021. AFP PHOTO


COLOMBO: Tons of charred plastic pellets from a burning container ship washed ashore near Sri Lanka's capital on Friday as an international effort to salvage the vessel dragged into a ninth day.

Thick black smoke rose from the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl, anchored just outside Colombo harbor, heightening fears that it could break up spilling its 278 tonnes of bunker oil.

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