Second Iranian warship nears Sri Lanka after US submarine sinks frigate
Healthcare workers carry the bodies of Iranian sailors who died in a US torpedo attack on their frigate IRIS Dena off Sri Lanka’s southern coast, at the mortuary of the Karapitiya hospital in Galle on March 4, 2026. A second Iranian warship was heading towards Sri Lanka’s territorial waters Thursday, a day after a US submarine destroyed an Iranian frigate, killing at least 87 sailors, a minister told parliament. — AFP pic
Thursday, 05 Mar 2026 4:19 PM MYT
GALLE, March 5 — A second Iranian warship was heading towards Sri Lanka’s territorial waters Thursday, a day after a US submarine destroyed an Iranian frigate, killing at least 87 sailors, a minister told parliament.
Media minister Nalinda Jayatissa said the second Iranian warship was just outside Sri Lankan waters, but gave no further details.
Official sources said the vessel was carrying more than 100 crew and feared they too could be targeted the same way a sister vessel was sunk by a US submarine just off Sri Lanka’s southern coast on Wednesday.
The sinking came as the war sparked by a joint US-Israel attack on Iran continued to spread across the Middle East and beyond.
Authorities in the southern port city of Galle, meanwhile, were making preparations Thursday to hand over the remains of 87 Iranian sailors killed in the torpedo attack claimed by the US military.
Officials at the main hospital in Galle said 32 rescued Iranians were still being treated under tight security provided by police and elite commandos.
The Emergency Treatment Unit was off limits to visitors and other patients, with the medical authorities setting up a separate ward for the Iranians.
“Most of them have minor injuries, but there were a few with fractures and burns,” a nurse at the hospital said, without giving her name.
Navy spokesman Buddhika Sampath told AFP that Sri Lankan navy vessels were continuing their search for missing Iranian sailors.
Iran has not yet commented on the sinking.
Sri Lanka has remained neutral and has repeatedly urged dialogue to resolve the conflict in the Middle East. — AFP
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Didn't the clown say he had destroyed the entire Iranian Navy?
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There is precedent under International law for the 2nd Iranian warship to declare itself a non-combatant and request to enter Sri Lankan territorial waters.
ReplyDeleteSri Lankan government can take the ship under its territorial water as a neutral nation , but it must insist to take authoritative control of the Iranian ship ..which is basically out of action until the end of hostilities.
Could become a rehash of the 1939 Graf Spee incident, when it sought refuge in Uruguay waters to escape the flotilla of British warships hunting it.
Under tremendous pressure from the British Government, the Uruguayan government insisted the Graf Spee captain must surrender his ship or he must leave. Faced with a no-win situation, the captain of the Graf Spee chose to scuttle his ship and he committed suicide.
The Iranian military command has disclosed that it had received temporary ceased fire request by US, sent via Italy & Oman diplomatic sources for the current war.
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Italian & Omani refuse to comment on this issue.
just saw on videoclip that Iran has REFUSED any ceasefire
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