COLOMBO: Foreign experts have been deployed to help Sri Lanka contain a potential oil leak from a burnt-out container ship partially sunk off Colombo, the ship's operator said Friday.

Representatives from the International Tankers Owners Pollution Federation and Oil Spill Response were onshore monitoring the MV X-Press Pearl, X-Press Feeders said.

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