Sri Lanka shelters second Iranian vessel amid US threat

• President insists Colombo is neutral, acting only to ‘safeguard lives’
• Araghchi calls US attack on ship in international waters ‘atrocity’
• New Delhi under fire after Navy-hosted ship’s sinking; Congress slams Modi’s ‘silence’, questions role as ‘security provider’ in Indian Ocean

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s navy assumed control of a second Iranian naval vessel and offloaded its crew on Thursday, its president said, moving to “safeguard lives” a day after a deadly US submarine attack...