Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says
Iranian military ship Iris Dena pictured berthed in Rio de Janeiro’s port, Brazil. (FILE/REUTERS)
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Updated 11 March 2026
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Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

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.