Environmental experts say the case is the country’s worst man-made environmental disaster
A man pulls a dead sea turtle that was washed ashore on a beach weeks after the MV X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire and sank off the coast of Colombo, in Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka 24 June 2021. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
A man pulls a dead sea turtle that was washed ashore on a beach weeks after the MV X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire and sank off the coast of Colombo, in Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka 24 June 2021. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
Reuters
Thu 1 Jul 2021 20.45 EDT
Hundreds of turtles have washed ashore after a ship caught fire and sank off the west coast of Sri Lanka in June in the country’s worst-ever marine disaster, a court in the capital Colombo has heard.