Colombo, March 7: Sri Lanka will repatriate the bodies of the Iranian sailors who were killed on IRIS Dena, the first Iranian ship that was torpedoed by the US, the Deputy Defence Minister said on Saturday.
Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it had recovered 84 bodies of Iranian sailors after the US submarine attack sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off Galle on the island’s southern coast. The ship had been returning to Iran from Visakhapatnam, India.
“The bodies are kept under refrigeration and action will be taken to send them back to Iran,” Minister Aruna Jayasekera said. (PTI)
