This photo released by Sri Lankan Air Force shows ships fighting fire on the MT New Diamond, about 30 nautical miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, Sept 8, 2020. Ships and aircraft from Sri Lanka and India intensified efforts to extinguish a new fire on an oil tanker off Sri Lanka's coast on Sept 8, 2020, two days after the previous three-day blaze was doused, the navy said. (SRI LANKAN AIR FORCE VIA AP)

NEW DELHI - Sri Lanka has extinguished another fire on a stricken supertanker loaded with 2 million barrels of oil and was towing the ship to deeper water, the island nation’s Navy said in a statement on Wednesday.

Sri Lankan officials are working to assess any damage to the environment and marine life from the incident, which began on Sept 3

“The disaster management team early this morning succeeded in dousing the fire that reignited on September 7th on the MT New Diamond crude oil carrier due to bad weather,” said the Sri Lanka Navy, adding the stricken vessel is now 68 off the Sri Lankan east coast.

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Sri Lankan officials are working to assess any damage to the environment and marine life from the incident, which began on Sept 3, when a fire initially broke out in the engine room of the New Diamond supertanker.

Sri Lanka will take legal action against the owner of the oil supertanker that caught fire on Thursday as there is a large leakage of bunker oil from the stricken vessel, an official at the Marine Environment Protection Authority said.

Sri Lanka’s navy on Tuesday spotted an oil slick a kilometre from the supertanker, which was chartered by Indian Oil Corp to import some 2 million barrels of oil from Kuwait.

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