\u201cWe have taken all the steps according to international laws,\u201d Herath said.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka also provided safe haven to a second Iranian warship, the IRIS Bushehr, and evacuated its 219 crew a day after the Dena was torpedoed.<\/p>\n
The ship was taken to Trincomalee on Sri Lanka\u2019s northeast coast after reporting engine problems.<\/p>\n
India, meanwhile, said on Saturday (local time) it had allowed a third Iranian warship, the IRIS Lavan, to dock in one of its ports on \u201chumane\u201d grounds after it too reported operational problems.<\/p>\n
The three ships were part of a multi-national fleet review held by India before the war in the Middle East started.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was the humane thing to do and I think we were guided by that principle,\u201d Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said.<\/p>\n
The Lavan docked in the southwest Indian port of Kochi on Wednesday (local time).<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the people on board were young cadets. They have disembarked and are in a nearby facility,\u201d Jaishankar said.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said this week that Colombo would follow the Hague Convention, which requires a neutral state to hold combatants of a warring state until hostilities end.<\/p>\n
A senior administration official said Colombo was in talks with the International Committee of the Red Cross to deal with the survivors of the torpedoed ship.<\/p>\n
International humanitarian law applied to the survivors from the Dena, an official said, and the wounded could be repatriated at their request.<\/p>\n
Iranian diplomats in Colombo said they have asked for the remains of 84 sailors killed in the US attack to be taken back to Iran.<\/p>\n
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