据路透社周三报道，斯里兰卡海军和国防部消息人士透露，一艘伊朗军舰在斯里兰卡海岸附近遭到疑似潜艇袭击，造成至少101人失踪，1人死亡，78人受伤。
这艘名为“伊里斯·德纳”号的护卫舰装备有重型火炮、舰空导弹、反舰导弹和鱼雷，并可搭载一架直升机。
这艘载有180名船员的护卫舰于黎明时分发出求救信号。
目前尚不清楚是谁袭击了这艘军舰，消息人士称该舰已经沉没。
美国军方周三早些时候表示，已击沉17艘伊朗舰艇，其目标是“摧毁整个伊朗海军”。与此同时，以色列国防军表示，美国军方全面负责袭击伊朗海上活动的任务。
斯里兰卡外交部长维吉塔·赫拉特证实，该国已从沉没于该岛国领海外的“伊里斯·德纳”号船上救起32名“重伤”船员。
赫拉特表示，斯里兰卡海军已派出两艘舰艇和一架飞机参与救援行动，但他并未说明伊朗军舰沉没的原因。
斯里兰卡国防部表示，正在搜寻“伊里斯·德纳”号军舰上100多名其他船员。该舰在斯里兰卡以南约40公里（25英里）处沉没。
一位官员告诉法新社：“我们仍在继续搜寻，但目前尚不清楚其他船员的下落。” 这使得找到更多幸存者的可能性降低。
然而，斯里兰卡海军发言人告诉路透社，此前有报道称101人失踪，但事实并非如此。斯里兰卡海军已救起32名在事故中受伤的人员。
海军发言人布迪卡·桑帕特表示，他们的行动符合斯里兰卡的海上义务，32名伊朗水兵已被送往位于首都科伦坡以南115公里（70英里）的加勒总医院。
受伤的伊朗人被当地海军送往加勒医院后，警方加强了医院外的安保。
桑帕特告诉法新社，“我们根据国际义务响应求救信号，因为事发地点位于我们在印度洋的搜救区域内。”
一名反对派议员在议会质询，这艘船是否是美以对伊朗持续袭击行动的一部分，但斯里兰卡政府尚未对此作出回应。
斯里兰卡海军和空军均表示，由于救援行动涉及他国军队，因此不会公布相关视频。
An apparent submarine attack on an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka has left at least 101 people missing, one dead and 78 injured, sources in Sri Lanka’s navy and defense ministry told Reuters on Wednesday.
The IRIS Dena frigate was armed with heavy guns, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles and torpedoes and could carry a helicopter.
The 180-crew frigate had issued a distress call at dawn.
It was unclear who attacked the ship, which the sources said had sunk.
The US military said earlier Wednesday it had destroyed 17 Iranian vessels and that its goal was sinking “the entire navy,” while the Israel Defense Forces said the American military had taken full responsibility for targeting Iran’s maritime activities.
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath confirmed that the nation had rescued 32 “critically wounded” sailors aboard the IRIS Dena, which sank just outside the island nation’s territorial waters.
Herath said two Sri Lankan navy vessels and an aircraft were deployed for the rescue operation, but did not say what caused the Iranian warship to sink.
Sri Lanka’s defense ministry said it was searching for over 100 other members of the crew of the IRIS Dena, which went down about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the island.
“We are keeping up a search, but we don’t know yet what happened to the rest of the crew,” an official told AFP, dimming prospects for finding any more survivors.
However, a Sri Lankan navy spokesman told Reuters that the report of 101 people being missing was not true, and that 32 people injured in the incident had been rescued by the Sri Lankan navy.
Navy spokesman Buddhika Sampath said their operation was in line with Sri Lanka’s maritime obligations and that 32 Iranian sailors were sent to the main hospital in Galle, 115 kilometers (70 miles) south of the capital Colombo.
Police stepped up security outside the Galle hospital as the wounded Iranians were brought there by the local navy.
“We responded to the distress call under our international obligations, as this is within our search and rescue area in the Indian Ocean,” Sampath told AFP.
An opposition legislator asked in parliament whether the vessel had been bombed as part of the ongoing US-Israeli attacks against Iran, but there was no immediate response from the Sri Lankan government.
Both Sri Lanka’s navy and the air force said they were not releasing footage of the rescue because it involved the military of another state.