After a visit to her ailing son in hospital last Saturday, Sithari Sandarela was confronted by a sight reminiscent of Sri Lanka’s decades of war.
Rescue services were bringing white body bags into the mortuary in the port city of Galle, with the remains of some of the 84 victims of a US submarine attack on an Iranian warship in the waters off Sri Lanka. “I was in shock, we have lived through so much war and now another war was coming to our shores,” said the 35-year-old.
The sinking of the IRIS Dena by a torpedo — in what US defence secretary Pete Hegseth described as a “quiet death” — some 19 nautical miles from the port city of Galle was one of the first such attacks since the second world war.
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