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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Aanya Wipulasena in Galle

Sri Lanka evacuates crew from Iranian navy vessel days after warship was destroyed by US

Ambulance driving into Galle hosptial.
Casualties from the sinking of the Iranian warship IRIS Dena have been taken to hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka. Photograph: Thilina Kaluthotage/Reuters

Sri Lanka has evacuated 208 crew members from an Iranian navy vessel that made an emergency request to dock, a day after a US submarine strike sank another Iranian frigate, killing more than 80 people on board.

Sri Lanka’s president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, on Thursday confirmed that the country’s navy would take over Iranian military support ship IRIS Bushehr and allow it to dock at the north-eastern port of Trincomalee.

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