Sri Lanka, March 9 -- Several oil barrels and suspicious debris have washed ashore along Sri Lanka's southern coastline a few days after the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena was torpedoed and sunk by the United States Navy submarine in seas off the coast of Galle.

The debris was reported in the coastal areas of Hikkaduwa and Dodanduwa.

Chairman of the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA), Samantha Gunasekara, confirmed that several oil barrels and other debris had washed ashore along the southern coast.

According to MEPA, local fishermen first reported sightings of oil patches in the sea on Saturday morning. By Sunday, authorities had recovered five barrels from the shoreline. While some barrels were intact, others were severely dam...