{"id":202417,"date":"2026-03-05T02:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-submarine-sank-irans-warship-off-sri-lanka-coast-says-hegseth-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:17:44","slug":"us-submarine-sank-irans-warship-off-sri-lanka-coast-says-hegseth-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-submarine-sank-irans-warship-off-sri-lanka-coast-says-hegseth-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"US submarine sank Iran\u2019s warship off Sri Lanka coast, says Hegseth &#8211; Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sri Lanka says it recovered several bodies and rescued 32 wounded sailors after the frigate sank just outside the island\u2019s territorial waters.<\/em><br \/>Share<br \/>Save<br \/>A \u2060United States submarine has sunk an Iranian warship with a torpedo in international waters off Sri Lanka\u2019s coast, says US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.<br \/>In a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Hegseth said the strike on the Iranian warship was the \u201cfirst such attack on an enemy since World War II\u201d.<br \/>Sri Lanka\u2019s navy said 87 bodies had been recovered and 32 sailors were rescued after an Iranian military ship sank just outside the island\u2019s territorial waters.<br \/>Authorities told Al Jazeera the frigate IRIS Dena, located about 40 nautical miles (75km) off Galle in southern Sri Lanka, sent out a distress call between 6am and 7am (00:30 to 01:30 GMT).<br \/>The ship had about 180 crew members on board, and a search and rescue operation was continuing, Sri Lankan officials said.<br \/>The Iranian frigate was returning from having taken part in the 2026 International Fleet Review last month in eastern India\u2019s coastal city of Vishakapatnam.<br \/>Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath told parliament that the navy received information that the ship was in distress and the government sent ships and air force planes on a rescue mission.<br \/>A Sri Lankan navy spokesperson said no other ship or aircraft was observed in the area where the Iranian warship sank.<br \/>Reporting from outside a hospital in Galle, where the wounded crew members were taken, Al Jazeera\u2019s Minnelle Fernandez\u00a0said an Iranian embassy official in Colombo said two officers have been sent to Galle \u201cto talk to the survivors to get a sense of what might have happened on the ship\u201d.<br \/>The warship\u2019s sinking occurred as the United States and Israel conduct air strikes on Iran for a fifth day after killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and nearly 800 other people, including dozens of schoolgirls.<br \/>Tehran has responded with drone and missile attacks on Israel and US-linked assets in Gulf countries, causing multiple deaths. Six US service members have been killed and many others injured.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Al Jazeera English:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka says it recovered several bodies and rescued 32 wounded sailors after the frigate sank just outside the island\u2019s territorial waters.ShareSaveA \u2060United States submarine has sunk an Iranian warship with a torpedo in international waters off Sri Lanka\u2019s coast, says US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.In a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Hegseth said the strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}