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Container ship burns into a ninth day off Colombo
By Agence France-Presse
May 29, 2021 12:28 am



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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