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Ships, copters fighting fire as tanker drifts near Sri Lanka

by Associated Press
| September 5, 2020 12:03 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Ships and aircraft from Sri Lanka and India intensified efforts to extinguish an oil tanker fire burning for a second day Friday as officials warned of possible massive environmental damage to Sri Lanka’s coast if the ship leaks or explodes.

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