{"id":9704,"date":"2020-09-06T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9704"},"modified":"2020-09-06T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T05:00:16","slug":"british-and-dutch-experts-arrive-in-sri-lanka-to-assist-mt-new-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/british-and-dutch-experts-arrive-in-sri-lanka-to-assist-mt-new-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Dutch experts arrive in Sri Lanka to assist MT New Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British and Dutch experts arrived in Sri Lanka to assist MT New Diamond, the oil tanker which caught fire off Sri Lankan shores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sri Lanka Navy said that the ten experts arrived at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MT New Diamond was towed 40 nautical miles (NM) away from Sri Lankan shores yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy said that efforts to completely extinguish the fire on the ship were still ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the Indian Coast Guard said that a pollution control vessel \u2018Samudra Paheredar\u2019 joined the operations today to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Equipped with Ocean boom, 04 Oil skimmers, Oil Spill Dispersant, the vessel will be a major boost to efforts to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British and Dutch experts arrived in Sri Lanka to assist MT New Diamond, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}