Published 20 May 2024 at 06.22
Foreign. Iran's president and foreign minister have died in a helicopter crash, an Iranian official source now confirms to Reuters.
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A helicopter that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian traveled in crash-landed on Sunday in a mountainous area in the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan.
A massive effort has been underway to find and, if possible, rescue the victims. Both Russia and Turkey helped.
At 06:00 on Monday, an Iranian official source confirmed to Reuters that both the president and the foreign minister have died in the accident.
In addition to them, there were seven other people on board . No signs of life should have been discovered at the scene of the accident.