UPDATE –All nine people on board of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter which crashed in the country’s north-west have died, the state news agency IRNA and state television have reported.
Raisi and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian are among the nine dead, according to state media.
On Monday morning IRNA published images taken by a drone showing debris from what appears to be a completely destroyed aircraft on a steep slope in the middle of the forest.
Raisi and Amirabdollahian were travelling back from a meeting with the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, when their aircraft disappeared from radar on Sunday afternoon.
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Rescue workers in Iran continued their search on foot Sunday for the helicopter carrying nine people including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian after it went missing in mountainous terrain, state media reported. Forty rescue teams were searching for the exact location of the accident with sniffer dogs and drones. The search was hampered by darkness and rain, according to a state television reporter on Sunday evening. The remote, muddy route is inaccessible by road, forcing rescue teams to proceed on foot, he said. Interior Minister Ahmad Wahidi also …