{"id":372126,"date":"2020-09-05T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T05:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372126"},"modified":"2020-09-05T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T06:14:29","slug":"fire-stricken-oil-tanker-pushed-away-from-sri-lankan-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fire-stricken-oil-tanker-pushed-away-from-sri-lankan-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire-stricken oil tanker pushed away from Sri Lankan coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo: A fire-stricken oil tanker was pushed away from Sri Lanka&#8217;s coast and into deeper waters on Saturday, rescuers said, after successfully containing the blaze during a 36-hour operation. <\/p>\n<p>The Panamanian-registered New Diamond carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude had drifted dangerously close to the eastern shores of Sri Lanka since issuing a distress message on Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian Coast Guard and the Sri Lankan navy said the 330-metre (1,000-foot) vessel was towed overnight to deeper waters some 60 kilometres (37 miles) away from the coast. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no oil slick reported,&#8221; the Indian Coast Guard said after a joint effort by the two countries to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo: A fire-stricken oil tanker was pushed away from Sri Lanka&#8217;s coast and into deeper waters on Saturday, rescuers said, after successfully containing the blaze during a 36-hour operation. The Panamanian-registered New Diamond carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude had drifted dangerously close to the eastern shores of Sri Lanka since issuing a distress message on Thursday morning. The Indian Coast Guard and the Sri Lankan navy said the 330-metre (1,000-foot) vessel was towed overnight to deeper waters some 60 kilometres (37 miles) away from the coast. &#8220;There is no oil slick reported,&#8221; the Indian Coast Guard said after a joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}