New Delhi, March 7 -- Sri Lankan MP Harsha de Silva expressed shock over the US torpedoing an Iranian warship, IRIS Dena, in the Indian Ocean and said that they did what they had to do after getting a distress call.

Speaking to ANI, Harsha de Silva, MP, Chair of the Committee on Public Finance of the Parliament in Sri Lanka, said, "This is something that we had not anticipated. The ship was at an international fleet review in Visakhapatnam. From what we understand, we got a distress call, and then the Sri Lankan Navy and the Air Force responded to this distress call. And when they got there, they saw some people floating. They rescued 30 or so and subsequently brought to show some 80 dead sailors, and that's what happened."

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