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Latest fire extinguished on oil tanker off Sri Lanka

by Associated Press
| September 9, 2020 3:30 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A fresh fire on a large oil tanker drifting off Sri Lanka’s coast was extinguished on Wednesday after burning for two days, the navy said, as experts prepared to salvage the vessel.

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