Colombo, March 8, 2026 (AFP) - Sri Lanka hospital releases 22 rescued from torpedoed Iranian vessel

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Sri Lanka discharged 22 Iranian crew from hospital who were plucked from life rafts after their warship was sunk by a US submarine, officials said Sunday. The crew had been treated at Karapitiya Hospital in the southern port city of Galle since Wednesday after the IRIS Dena was torpedoed just outside Sri Lanka's territorial waters. The attack on Dena was the first military strike far outside the Middle East since the United States and Israel laun......

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