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, a source in the Iranian embassy in Colombo and Sri Lankan media reported on Friday.
Iranian warship IRIS Dena was struck by a torpedo from a US submarine on March 4 while it was returning from a naval exercise in India, amid the US-Israeli war on Iran that has disrupted markets and global trade.
A Sri Lankan court this week ordered that the bodies of the sailors killed in the attack, currently stored in a morgue at the National Hospital in the southern port city of Galle, be handed over to the Iranian embassy.