Iran uses charter plane to repatriate crew of warship docked in Kochi

Iran used a charter plane on Friday to repatriate most of the crew of the Iranian warship IRIS Lavan docked at the Kochi port, the Hindustan Times reported. The special flight also carried the bodies of Iranian sailors who were killed when the Iranian warship, IRIS Dena, was sunk by a US submarine near Sri Lanka on March 4.