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It is a gruesome disaster that is bleaching the most beautiful beaches of Sri Lanka with plastic pellets, suffocating fish, birds and turtles and polluting the waters for a radius of at least 50 kilometers off the coast of the capital Colombo and along the tourist resorts of Negombo and Kalutara. It is a wretched ship, this MV X-Press Pearl, 186 meters long and loaded with 1,486 meters
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