X-Press Pearl: Sri Lanka braces for environmental disaster from sunken ship

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Sri Lankan authorities are preparing for an oil spill from a sunken container ship after efforts to tow the vessel into deeper waters failed.

The Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl had been on fire for two weeks near the port of Colombo. Part of the hull has now settled on the seabed.

Experts fear hundreds of tonnes of fuel oil in the ship’s tanks could devastate nearby marine life and beaches.

Oil dispersants, booms and skimmers are being readied, they say.

The X-Press

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