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Protesters in the Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo held numerous small, peaceful demonstrations over a severe economic crisis on Sunday, defying a nationwide curfew, while police used tear gas to ...
Fire fighters are again battling flames aboard a fully loaded oil supertanker off Sri Lanka, the island's nation's navy said on Monday, four days after fire first broke out on the New Diamond.
A fire broke out on a large oil tanker off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka on Thursday, leaving one of its 23 crew members missing and another injured, a navy spokesman said. The fire started in a ...
The Sri Lanka Navy, along with the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, which boarded the ship in order to find out the cause of the fire, suspected that the fire might have started as a result of the reaction of chemicals being transported on the ship. [22] During the fire incident, the vessel had a crew of 25 members on board. [23]
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 ...
On 3 September 2020, a fire broke out in the engine room of New Diamond at around 07:45 local time , when the ship was about 65 kilometres (40 mi) east of Sri Lanka in the Sangaman Kanda Point. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] At the time, the ship was carrying 270,000 tonnes of oil from Kuwait to the Paradip refinery in India, with 18 Filipino and five Greek ...
Sri Lanka which was initially successful in handling the first wave of the pandemic, but recorded a sudden spike of COVID-19 cases starting in October after a fresh surge at Brandix, a popular apparel retailer, as well as at a fish market in Peliyagoda. The second wave of COVID-19 infections also took its toll in various prisons in Sri Lanka ...
With Sri Lanka's economy in shambles, with fuel and food shortages, more than 200 people have been wounded after clashes between government supporters and those calling for change, the BBC ...