UPDATE 4-Sri Lanka offloads 208 crew members from second Iranian ship a day after US strike sinks frigate
Published on: March 6, 2026, 1:04 a.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
Tehran has asked Colombo to help repatriate the bodies, Sri Lanka's deputy minister for health and mass media, Hansaka Wijemuni, told Reuters, adding that a timeframe had not yet been determined. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said the warship was struck in international waters without warning, thousands of miles from the Gulf, where U.S. and Israeli forces are striking Iran and Tehran is retaliating with missile and drone attacks.
