(UCA News) -- Antony Ruwan Silva, a Sunday school teacher from Negombo, says large quantities of chemical waste from the damaged container ship X-press Pearl wash ashore on the beach every day.
Fish and marine animals such as sea turtles can be seen dying and their bodies have been dumped on the beach.
"It has already been...
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