Firefighting crews from sri lanka and india are working to put out a large blaze aboard an oil tanker that has been burning since thursday off the coast of the south asian island nation.
New diamond oil tanker fire.
Tanker with 2 million barrels of oil catches fire off sri lanka one filipino crew member injured and another missing from the new diamond navy says ships from russia and india helping to battle blaze.
The fire on board mt new diamond which killed one filipino crew member and injured another was extinguished completely on sunday but a new fire broke.
The sri lankan navy in a statement said the re ignited fire on board the panama registered tanker mt new diamond carrying nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil has been curbed to an extent.
The appreciation extended by president gotabaya rajapaksa to the sri lanka navy the indian navy and sri lanka air force fire fighters who had engaged in the task of dousing the fire that erupted on the oil tanker mt new diamond had highlighted to what extent the inferno had posed a threat to the marine biodiversity in the eastern coastal area of sri lanka.
Four tugboats three sri lankan navy ships and four indian ships have been battling the fire the mt new diamond since thursday.
Mt new diamond is a very large crude carrier on 3 september 2020 the ship caught fire off the eastern coast of sri lanka resulting in the death of a filipino crew member after burning intermittently for almost a week the fire was reported to be extinguished by 11 september.
The new diamond a very large crude carrier vlcc chartered by indian oil corp ioc that was carrying the equivalent of about 2 million barrels of oil is seen after a fire broke out off east.
On 03rd september 2020.
The tanker carrying nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil was.