COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack on an Iranian warship off the island nation’s coast last week be handed over to the embassy of Iran, local media reported on Wednesday.
The warship, IRIS Dena, was hit by a torpedo from a US submarine in the Indian Ocean while it was returning from a naval exercise organized by India, amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says
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Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says
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