{"id":33643,"date":"2021-07-02T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/hundreds-of-dead-turtles-wash-ashore-in-sri-lanka-after-cargo-ship-wreck"},"modified":"2021-07-02T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T00:45:34","slug":"hundreds-of-dead-turtles-wash-ashore-in-sri-lanka-after-cargo-ship-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33643","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of dead turtles wash ashore in Sri Lanka after cargo ship wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental experts say the case is the country\u2019s worst man-made environmental disaster<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of turtles have washed ashore after a ship caught fire and sank off the west coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/srilanka\">Sri Lanka<\/a> in June in the country\u2019s worst-ever marine disaster, a court in the capital Colombo has heard.<\/p>\n<p>A fire erupted on the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl on 20 May, carrying 1,486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid along with other chemicals and cosmetics. It sank on 2 June as a salvage crew tried to tow the vessel away from the coast.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/hundreds-of-dead-turtles-wash-ashore-in-sri-lanka-after-cargo-ship-wreck\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental experts say the case is the country\u2019s worst man-made environmental disasterHundreds of turtles have washed ashore after a ship caught fire and sank off the west coast of Sri Lanka in June in the country\u2019s worst-ever marine disaster, a cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[65,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","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\/33643","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33644,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33643\/revisions\/33644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}