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A shipping container washed ashore on the beach near Owakanda Junction, within the Rathgama Police Division, this morning (03).

 

Rathgama Police stated that the object is a white colored container approximately 40 feet in length.

 

Police suspect that the container may have fallen from a vessel at sea.

 

Meanwhile, a similar white colored container washed ashore yesterday (02) on the beach behind a tourist hotel in the Induruwa area.

 

It is currently suspected that the container that washed ashore yesterday was an empty container that fell into the sea from a vessel in the waters off Colombo two days ago.

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