{"id":32736,"date":"2021-06-02T22:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/cargo-ship-carrying-tonnes-of-chemicals-sinks-off-sri-lanka"},"modified":"2021-06-02T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:13:58","slug":"cargo-ship-carrying-tonnes-of-chemicals-sinks-off-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32736","title":{"rendered":"Cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals sinks off Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government suspends fishing along 50-mile coastline after explosion and fire<\/p>\n<p>A cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals has sunk off Sri Lanka\u2019s west coast, and tonnes of plastic pellets have fouled the country\u2019s rich fishing waters in one of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/sri-lanka-faces-disaster-burning-ship-spills-chemicals-beaches\">worst marine disasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government on Wednesday suspended fishing along a 50-mile stretch of the island\u2019s coastline, affecting 5,600 fishing boats, and hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to clean affected beaches.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/cargo-ship-carrying-tonnes-of-chemicals-sinks-off-sri-lanka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government suspends fishing along 50-mile coastline after explosion and fireA cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals has sunk off Sri Lanka\u2019s west coast, and tonnes of plastic pellets have fouled the country\u2019s rich fishing waters in one of its worst m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,468,467,64,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-oceans","category-oil-spills","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32737,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736\/revisions\/32737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}