The autopsy of the eighty-four Iranian sailors who were on board the ship that sank after being torpedoed by an American submarine in international waters near Galle has been completed.
The autopsy revealed that the cause of death of the majority of the deceased sailors was serious injuries to their body parts when they were thrown overboard.
Professor Clifford Perera told the media that the hull of the ship exploded after the attack, and that many of the people on board the ship suffered serious injuries to their heads, chests, and abdomens as they were thrown overboard and parts of the ship hit their bodies.
He also said that several of the deceased had no external or internal injuries, and that they had drowned.
The post-mortem examinations of the 84 Iranian sailors who died on board the ship were conducted at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital morgue in Galle from Thursday evening to Friday morning.
A team of forensic medical experts led by Professor Clifford Perera of the Karapitiya Faculty of Forensic Medicine participated in these examinations.