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Sri Lanka to repatriate bodies of 84 Iranian sailors killed on March 4 in global waters

Colombo/Tehran, Mar 13 (UNI) Sri Lanka will repatriate the bodies of 84 Iranian sailors who were killed when their warship was torpedoed and sunk by a US submarine in the Indian Ocean earlier this month amid the ongoing war in West Asia between Israel, and the US against Iran.
The move follows a ruling by a court in Colombo ordering authorities to hand the remains over to the Iranian embassy for return to Iran.
The sailors were aboard the Iranian warship IRIS Dena, which was carrying around 180 crew members when it was torpedoed on March 4 off the coast of Sri Lanka, bringing the conflict near the waters of the Indian subcontinent.
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