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Sri Lanka and India Deploy Ships and Aircraft to Fight Oil Tanker Fire
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Sep 9, 20201:13Now PlayingShips and aircraft from Sri Lanka and India intensified efforts Tuesday to extinguish a new fire on an oil tanker off Sri Lanka's coast, two days after an initial blaze on the vessel was put out.
The MT New Diamond is carrying nearly two million barrels of crude oil and Sri Lankan officials have warned of possible massive environmental damage to Sri Lanka's coast if the ship leaks or explodes.
The Navy had said the initial fire began in an engine room boiler but did not spread to the tanker's oil storage area and no leak had been reported.
High winds, extreme temperatures and sparks reignited it, the Navy said in a statement.
Ships, tugboats and helicopters from Sri Lanka and neighboring India were part of the firefighting efforts.
The initial fire killed one Filipino crew member and injured another, but the rest of the crew escaped uninjured.
The tanker had 23 crew members, 18 Filipinos and five Greeks. The captain remained on a ship at the location of the fire to help firefighting efforts.
The tanker had drifted to within 20 nautical miles of Sri Lanka's eastern coast before a tugboat towed it further out to sea.
The Navy said the vessel was now positioned about 30 nautical miles off the coast.
The tanker was transporting crude oil from the port of Mina Al Ahmadi in Kuwait to the Indian port of Paradip, where the state-owned Indian Oil Corp. has a refinery.
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