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Sri Lanka connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) said it is deliberating due enactment aft a 2nd Iranian vessel has sought introduction to its territorial waters, a time aft a frigate belonging to the Islamic state was attacked adjacent the land nation.
Sri Lanka connected Wednesday (March 4, 2026) said it had recovered implicit 80 bodies of Iranian sailors killed aft a U.S. submarine onslaught sank the Iranian frigate - IRIS Dena - disconnected Galle, the island's confederate coastal town.
Government spokesperson and curate Nalinda Jayathissa was connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) responding to a query by the main absorption person Sajith Premadasa successful Parliament astir the 2nd Iranian ship.
“We are alert of it and are contemplating enactment to safeguard each lives connected board,” Mr. Jayathissa said. “We are intervening to resoluteness this contented to safeguard determination peace.” The ship, according to Mr. Jayathissa, awaits successful Sri Lanka’s Extended Economic Zone (EEZ) but is retired of its territorial waters.
Sources said the vessel had requested exigency assistance.
Meanwhile, successful Galle, the unit of the vessel torpedoed by the U.S. were receiving treatment. Their injuries are not of superior nature, the infirmary sources said.
The inquests connected the 84 bodies of the perished Iranian sailors would beryllium conducted Thursday (March 5, 2026) astatine the Karapitiya infirmary successful Galle wherever the injured are receiving treatment.
The ill-fated vessel was returning location from Visakhapatnam aft a naval fleet reappraisal exercise.
While the Sri Lanka Navy refused to springiness reasons arsenic to what caused the vas to marque a distress plea, U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth said connected Wednesday (March 4, 2026) that it was a U.S. submarine that sank the Iranian warship successful planetary waters.
Earlier successful the day, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath had told Parliament that an exigency connection was received by the Sri Lanka Navy and Coast Guard astatine 5.08 a.m. regarding a sinking vessel named IRIS Dena, located astir 40 nautical miles disconnected the confederate larboard territory of Galle.
Sri Lankan Navy spokesperson Commander Buddhika Sampath said, “We are lone acrophobic astir our work to rescue them arsenic archetypal responders nether planetary maritime obligations.” The U.S. and Israel person launched a monolithic associated onslaught connected Iran since February 28. The warfare has extended to astir the full Gulf portion with Iran's retaliation.
