Sri Lanka court orders handover of 84 Iranian sailors' bodies to embassy

COLOMBO: (Mar 11) A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday ordered that the bodies of 84 Iranian sailors killed in a US attack on an Iranian vessel off the island nation’s coast be handed over to Iran's embassy.

Currently, the bodies are stored in two freezer containers in Galle National Hospital.

Galle Chief Magistrate Sameera Dodangoda ordered the director of the hospital to handover the bodies to the Iranian embassy.