War Second ship torpedoed since WW2. First since General Belgrano.

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Middle East latest: Eighty dead after US torpedoes Iranian ship off Sri Lanka; Australians return home​

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An injured Iranian sailor receives treatment at the Karapitiya hospital in Galle after his frigate sank off Sri Lanka's coast. Picture: AFP



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Welcome to The Australian’s rolling coverage of the conflict in the Middle East, a war the US says it is winning “decisively, devastatingly and without mercy”.

Sri Lankan authorities have confirmed at least 87 people were killed when the US torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.

The first planeload of stranded Australian travellers touched down at Sydney Airport late last night, welcomed home by awaiting friends and family with rounds of applause, tears and long embraces.

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US sinks Iranian warship

Lydia Lynch

An American submarine has sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, killing at least 87 sailors.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says the ship, that was the Indian Ocean, “thought it was safe in international waters”.
“Instead it was sunk by a torpedo,” he says.
The Iris Dena was one of Tehran’s newest warships and was believed to be heading back to Iran from a port in eastern India when it was hit by the torpedo.

 

[Teeshine]

Safe zones are a figment

 

[Whatdoesthefoxsay]

I like how news comes out...they actually going to home from India...but any how Srilanka made the headline first...nice

 

[chewbok]

I don’t think the Capitan launching that torpedo had a cigar in his mouth and a stopwatch in his hand. I bet some 19 yr old girl pushed the button.

 

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I don’t think the Capitan launching that torpedo had a cigar in his mouth and a stopwatch in his hand. I bet some 19 yr old girl pushed the button.

Well, no matter her age or gender I wouldn't want to be any where near her when she pushes her bean button I can tell you...

 

[wiggins]

Starmer has really excelled himself this time.

"He's no Winston..."

Cartoon by the Australian's John Spooner, my favourite cartoonist. His work is really good and he's been a fixture for 30 years or more.

 

[wiggins]

I like how news comes out...they actually going to home from India...but any how Srilanka made the headline first...nice

Srilanka did the rescue...