{"id":325897,"date":"2026-04-15T16:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=325897"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:55:42","slug":"survivors-of-iranian-naval-vessel-depart-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=325897","title":{"rendered":"Survivors of Iranian naval vessel depart Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COLOMBO, April 15 (Xinhua) &#8211; Survivors of IRIS Dena, the Iranian naval vessel sunk in a U.S. attack in early March, left Sri Lanka for Iran on Tuesday night, a senior Sri Lankan military official said Tuesday.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Aruna Jayasekara, deputy defense minister of Sri Lanka, 32 survivors were repatriated alongside more than 200 personnel on board IRIS Bushehr, another Iranian naval vessel. The personnel were said to have departed Sri Lanka on a special flight.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IRIS Dena was attacked and sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lankan waters in the early days of the military conflict in the Middle East. During the rescue operation, Sri Lanka Navy recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IRIS Bushehr sought permission to enter Sri Lankan waters in early March. On March 6, personnel on board the vessel were evacuated to Colombo Port by Sri Lanka Navy and have been under Sri Lankan custody ever since.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, April 15 (Xinhua) &#8211; Survivors of IRIS Dena, the Iranian naval vessel sunk in a U.S. attack in early March, left Sri Lanka for Iran on Tuesday night, a senior Sri Lankan military official said Tuesday. According to Aruna Jayasekara, deputy defense minister of Sri Lanka, 32 survivors were repatriated alongside more than 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":324694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,217,341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325898,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325897\/revisions\/325898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}