Safety personnel stand guard as an ambulance enters contained in the Karapitiya hospital, following a submarine assault on the Iranian army ship, IRIS Dena, off the coast of Sri Lanka, in Galle, Sri Lanka on March 5, 2026.
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Authorities on the Nationwide Hospital in Galle and navy sources mentioned 87 our bodies had been introduced in by army rescuers who responded to an early-morning misery name from the IRIS Dena on Wednesday (March 4, 2026)
Iranian sailors who survived a U.S. submarine strike within the Indian Ocean had been recovering at a hospital within the Sri Lankan port metropolis of Galle, authorities mentioned on Thursday (March 5, 2026), a day after a minimum of 87 had been killed within the assault.
Authorities on the Nationwide Hospital in Galle and navy sources mentioned 87 our bodies had been introduced in by army rescuers who responded to an early-morning misery name from the IRIS Dena on Wednesday (March 4, 2026).
Search and rescue operations for an estimated 60 folks on board who stay unaccounted for would proceed on Thursday (March 5, 2026), authorities mentioned.
The 32 rescued sailors had been being handled for minor accidents and might be launched from hospital on Thursday (March 5, 2026), authorities mentioned. Two policemen guarded the entrance to ward No. 58 of the hospital as nurses milled about and medical doctors carried out morning rounds.
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The assault, which dramatically widens the scope of the conflict, occurred a whole bunch of miles throughout the Indian Ocean from the Gulf, the place U.S. and Israeli forces are putting Iran and Tehran is retaliating with missile and drone assaults.
“An American submarine sank an Iranian warship that thought it was protected in worldwide waters,” U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth mentioned on the Pentagon. “As a substitute, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet loss of life.”
A Pentagon video purporting to have captured the assault confirmed the warship being hit by an enormous explosion, which blew aside the rear of the vessel, lifting it from the water, and inflicting it to start sinking from the strict.
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