Sunday 02 / June / 2024
Tehran :Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash site, state media report. Raisi was 63.
State media gave no immediate cause for the crash.
All nine people on board the helicopter died when it crashed on Sunday in Iran's northwestern East Azerbaijan region, state media said.
Raisi and Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian were traveling back from a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The helicopter disappeared from radar on Sunday afternoon.
All the passengers of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president and foreign minister were martyred.
A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian crashed in a dense forest area in East Azarbaijan on Sunday.
On Monday morning, it was announced that all the passengers of the crashed helicopter were martyred.
The helicopter's passengers, including Ebrahim Raeisi, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's East Azerbaijan Province Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution to East Azarbaijan province, along with several other people were martyred in the incident.
