Post-mortem examinations on 84 bodies of Iranian sailors recovered from the sunken frigate IRIS Dena have been concluded at Karapitiya Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka, with 80 of the 84 bodies identified by survivors. The ship was sunk by a US submarine off Sri Lanka`s southern coast while returning to Iran from Visakhapatnam

The Sri Lankan Navy said it received information that the ship was in distress, and it sent ships and air force planes on a rescue mission