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Ships, boats try to douse ship fire off Sri Lanka, 1 dead

by Associated Press
| September 3, 2020 9:33 PM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Ships, boats and aircraft from Sri Lanka and India were escalating efforts to douse a fire raging on an oil tanker east of Sri Lanka for a second day Friday.

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