Pakistan, March 5 -- Surviving Iranian sailors were recovering at a hospital in Sri Lanka's southern port city of Galle on Thursday after a US submarine attack sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, killing at least 87 people, authorities said.

According to officials at the National Hospital in Galle and Sri Lankan naval sources, military rescue teams transported 87 bodies to the port city after responding to an early-morning distress call from the Iranian vessel IRIS Dena on Wednesday.

Search and rescue operations were continuing on Thursday for around 60 crew members who remain missing following the attack, authorities added.

A total of 32 sailors were rescued and brought to the hospital, where they were being treated for mino...