President Raisi’s helicopter crashed afternoon on Sunday in Varzaqan region as he was returning with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.
TEHRAN: Head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) says that no survivors have been found at the site where the helicopter of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed in northwest Iran.
Expressing his fear that the Iranian President may not have survived the crash, Pir-Hossein Kolivand told Iran state TV “No trace of survivors has been seen after the discovery of the site of the crashed helicopter”.
Meanwhile Reuters news agency also quoting an official said, “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead”.
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Kolivand revealed earlier in the day that the site of the crash involving President Raisi and senior officials accompanying him had been found after hours of extensive search in a mountainous region in the province of East Azerbaijan.
President Raisi’s helicopter crashed afternoon on Sunday in Varzaqan region as he was returning with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and several others from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on Iran’s border with the Republic of Azerbaijan.
