Photo: Kanchana Wijesekera - Twitter feed
The fire stricken boxship X-Press Pearl is sinking as salvors tow the vessel further from the Sri Lankan coast.
Sri Lankan State Minister of Fisheries, Kanchana Wijesekera posted on Twitter earlier today that the salvors for the X-Press Pearl said the vessel was starting to sink. Images showed the X-Press Pearl under tow to deeper waters with the ship gradually sinking.
A statement just issued by the vessel's owners X-Press Feeders said that they: "Regret to report that despite salvors successfully boarding the vessel and attaching a tow wire, efforts to move the ship to deeper waters