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Colombo, March 13 (IANS) The bodies of 84 identified Iranian sailors killed in the March 4 US attack on the warship IRIS Dena off Sri Lanka’s coast were repatriated to Iran, Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry said Friday. The bodies are being transported to Iran via a special flight which departed Friday afternoon from Mattala International Airport in the country’s Southern Province.On March 11, Galle Chief Magistrate Sameera Dodangoda ordered that the bodies, which had been kept in two mobile cold st…