A video circulating online captures the moment the Sri Lankan Navy rescued Iranian sailors, after a torpedo from a United States submarine sank the warship in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sri Lanka, killing 87 people on board.
Meanwhile, 32 survivors were rescued and taken to the hospital in Galle. Visuals showed the Navy personnel carrying the injured sailors on stretchers and rushing them to the hospital.
🚨 First visuals of the Sri Lanka Navy rescuing Iranian sailors who survived the torpedo attack on the Iranian warship IRIS Dena on March 4, about 19 nautical miles off Galle.32 survivors were brought ashore following the attack.pic.twitter.com/23yph7DZJF— NewsWire 🇱🇰 (@NewsWireLK)March 6, 2026
The warship, IRIS Dena, participated in a naval exercise in India just weeks ago. Confirming the attack, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth described it as evidence of America’s global reach in its war on Iran.
“An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo," Hegseth told reporters.
Hegseth called the attack “quiet death" and said it was the first US sinking of an enemy ship by torpedo since World War II.
“Like in that war. We are fighting to win", he stated.
Following the incident, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi accused the United States of committing “atrocity at sea" by sinking the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean.
Araghchi said the warship, which he said was “a guest of India’s Navy" carrying nearly 130 sailors, was struck without warning by a US submarine in international waters.
The Iranian minister warned Washington would “bitterly regret the precedent it has set."
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