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1:33Now PlayingSri Lankan authorities have released footage of their rescue of 32 Iranian sailors who survived a US torpedo attack in the Indian Ocean. Officials said they recovered 87 bodies from the IRIS Dena warship that was sunk by a US submarine. On Friday, Sri Lanka also took over a second Iranian ship, IRIS Bushehr, after it received a distress call, allowing more than 200 sailors to disembark. Sri Lankan President president Anura Kumara Dissanayake said: "As a state, as a government, while maintaining our neutrality, we keep humanity as our number one priority"
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