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Owner of fire-stricken ship to pay $1.8M for Sri Lankan help

by Associated Press
| September 26, 2020 12:03 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The owner of a large oil tanker that caught fire off Sri Lanka's coast has agreed to pay $1.8 million to the island nation for its help in extinguishing the blaze, an official said Thursday.

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