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.

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…

Sri Lanka repatriates 45 Iranian sailors' bodies after a U.S. submarine attack, while 32 survivors recover at a local airbase.

The seamen died when Iranian warship the Iris Dena was sunk on 4 March by a US submarine near Sri Lanka.

COLOMBO: The bodies of 84 Iranian sailors killed in a US submarine attack on a warship off Sri Lanka’s coast last week will be repatriated on a plane that an Indian source said…