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Sri Lanka volition assistance escaped one-month visas to a radical rescued from Iranian vessels, allowing them to stay successful Sri Lanka nether humanitarian protection, a elder curate said connected Sunday (March 8, 2026).
Speaking connected the matter, Minister of Public Security Ananda Wijepala said akin decisions could beryllium taken successful the aboriginal if necessary, stressing that specified measures are not intended to enactment oregon harm immoderate peculiar party.
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“They volition beryllium granted 1 period gratis visas,” Mr. Wijepala told reporters.
“We volition not beryllium taking immoderate sides but volition enactment connected a humanitarian ground successful presumption of planetary law,” Mr. Wijepala stressed.
There are 32 who had survived the U.S. submarine onslaught connected the sunk ‘Iris Dena’ frigate. Another 186 were evacuated from ‘Iris Bushehr’.
Out of the 32 from the sunk frigate, lone 10 stay nether attraction astatine Karapitiya, the nationalist infirmary astatine Galle, the confederate larboard city.
The 22 person been discharged from the hospital.
They were admitted connected Wednesday (March 4) aft the vessel had been sunk, consequent to being torpedoed by a U.S. submarine.
Sri Lanka is yet to marque a determination connected their repatriation. Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath has said Sri Lanka would strictly adhere to the applicable planetary laws to woody with the situation.
