{"id":372215,"date":"2020-09-07T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372215"},"modified":"2020-09-07T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T05:01:04","slug":"fire-onboard-oil-tanker-off-sri-lankas-coast-completely-extinguished-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fire-onboard-oil-tanker-off-sri-lankas-coast-completely-extinguished-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire onboard oil tanker off Sri Lanka&#8217;s coast completely extinguished : Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO : The fire on board an oil tanker off Sri Lanka&#8217;s eastern waters has been completely extinguished, nearly 79 hours after the incident was reported, the Navy said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The ship was carrying 270,000 metric tonnes of crude oil from Kuwait to India and caught fire on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan Navy on Friday confirmed that a Filipino sailor died in the boiler explosion in the engine room of the Panama registered tanker MT New Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Indian ships supported the Lankan Navy to douse the flames on the tanker off the coast of Sangamankanda in the eastern district of Ampara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO : The fire on board an oil tanker off Sri Lanka&#8217;s eastern waters has been completely extinguished, nearly 79 hours after the incident was reported, the Navy said on Sunday. The ship was carrying 270,000 metric tonnes of crude oil from Kuwait to India and caught fire on Thursday. The Sri Lankan Navy on Friday confirmed that a Filipino sailor died in the boiler explosion in the engine room of the Panama registered tanker MT New Diamond. Indian ships supported the Lankan Navy to douse the flames on the tanker off the coast of Sangamankanda in the eastern district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372215","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}