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Sri Lanka ship fire extinguished after 13 days
Colombo: A fire aboard a cargo ship off Sri Lanka carrying hundreds of tonnes of chemicals, plastics and cosmetics was finally extinguished Tuesday after a 13-day international operation, the navy said. In Sri Lanka's worst marine ecological disaster, huge volumes of microplastic granules from the ship's containers have inundated beaches, forcing a fishing ban and a major clean-up involving thousands of troops. Experts from Dutch salvage company SMIT boarded the MV X-Press Pearl and reported massive flooding of the engine rooms. The Singapore-registered vessel caught fire on May 20 when it was about to enter the Colombo port. Navy spokesman Captain Indika de Silva said the stern of the 186-

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