{"id":32749,"date":"2021-06-03T16:35:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/03\/sri-lanka-officials-brace-oil-spill-sinking-cargo-ship"},"modified":"2021-06-03T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:39:25","slug":"sri-lankan-officials-brace-for-oil-spill-from-sinking-cargo-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32749","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan officials brace for oil spill from sinking cargo ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navy tugboats and helicopters monitor wreckage as green film surrounds chemical-laden vessel<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan officials have begun preparing for a potentially devastating oil spill after a cargo ship carrying toxic chemicals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/cargo-ship-carrying-tonnes-of-chemicals-sinks-off-sri-lanka\">caught fire<\/a> off the coast and sank.<\/p>\n<p>The MV X-Press Pearl had been carrying 25 tonnes of nitric acid, sodium hydroxide and other dangerous substances when a blaze broke out on 20 May while it was docked nine miles (14km) from the port in Sri Lanka\u2019s capital, Colombo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/03\/sri-lanka-officials-brace-oil-spill-sinking-cargo-ship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy tugboats and helicopters monitor wreckage as green film surrounds chemical-laden vesselSri Lankan officials have begun preparing for a potentially devastating oil spill after a cargo ship carrying toxic chemicals caught fire off the coast and sank&#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":[41,65,64,466,1980,783,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-oil-spills","category-pollution","category-shipping-industry","category-singapore","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\/32749","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=32749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32762,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32749\/revisions\/32762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}