An American submarine has sunk an Iranian warship in international waters, the US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has said.
Hegseth confirmed that an American submarine had torpedoed an Iranian warship that "thought it was safe in international waters".
Hegseth went on to claim this was the first time the US had torpedoed an enemy ship since the Second World War
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath told parliament that its navy received information that the IRIS Dena, with 180 people on board, was in distress and sinking.
Navy spokesman Commander Buddhika Sampath said by the time rescue ships reached the location, there was no sign of the ship in distress and “there were only some oil patches and life rafts. We found people floating on the water.”
He said the 32 people were rescued and admitted to a hospital in Galle, a town on Sri Lanka’s southern coast. The bodies recovered were also being brought to land, he said.
The Sri Lankan navy added it has recovered 87 bodies off the coast from where the warship sunk.
US-Israel strikes on Iran continued into a fifth day, with the Israeli military beginning a "broad wave" of strikes on Tehran and other major cities on Wednesday. The IDF said it was targeting the Iranian leadership and security forces.
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