Sri Lanka recovers 87 bodies from Iranian warship sunk off its coast by U.S. submarine

A torpedo fired by a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, whose navy said Wednesday it recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people.

The Iranian vessel sunk in the Indian Ocean was the Islamic Republic’s “prize ship,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. It was one of the few instances of a submarine sinking a ship since World War II.

The 32 people rescued were admitted to a hospital in Galle, a town on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, Sri Lnaka's navy spokesman Commander Buddhika Sampath said. The bodies recovered were also being brought to land, he said.