A U.S. submarine sank a warship with a torpedo off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, dramatically widening Washington’s pursuit of the Iranian navy. Arun Hemachandra, Sri Lanka’s deputy foreign minister, identified the warship as the frigate IRIS Dena and said it was heading back to Iran from an eastern Indian port. The attack happened hundreds of kilometres across the Indian Ocean from the Persian Gulf, where U.S. and Israeli forces are striking Iran and Tehran is retaliating with missile and drone attacks.
Hospital authorities in the Sri Lankan port city of Galle said 87 bodies were brought in by military rescuers who responded to an early morning distress call. Another 32 were rescued and were being treated at hospital and about 60 people were likely unaccounted for from an estimated 180 people on board, Sri Lankan authorities said.
A Pentagon video shared on social media purporting to have captured the attack showed the warship being hit by a huge explosion that blew apart the rear of the vessel, lifting it from the water and causing it to begin sinking from the stern.
“An American submarine sank an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday. “Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death…”
Source: aljazeera.com/news
