{"id":1383,"date":"2024-05-20T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:40:06","slug":"iran-presidents-crash-raisi-and-foreign-minister-killed-in-helicopter-crash-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/iran-presidents-crash-raisi-and-foreign-minister-killed-in-helicopter-crash-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran president\u2019s crash: Raisi and foreign minister killed in helicopter crash \u2013 state media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three more victims identified from helicopter crash<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The names of some of those killed in the helicopter crash besides Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have now been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IRNA state news agency<\/a> says that also on board were Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashem, the imam for Friday prayers in the city of Tabriz, and General Malek Rahmati, the governor of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commander of the president’s protection unit, Sardar Seyed Mehdi Mousavi, was also killed, as were a number of bodyguards and helicopter crew who have not yet been named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran’s president and foreign minister killed in helicopter crash – state media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and several others are confirmed to have been killed in Sunday’s helicopter crash in north-western Iran, state TV says.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some Iranian media reporting President Raisi has died – no official confirmation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Some Iranian media are reporting that President Ebrahim Raisi is dead, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the others on board the helicopter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They include the Mehr and Tasnim news agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However there has been no official confirmation of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is “no sign” of life coming from President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter, state TV says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters has also reported that the helicopter was “completely burned” in the crash, citing an Iranian official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“President Raisi\u2019s helicopter was completely burned in the crash… unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead,” the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rescuers will reach helicopter ‘in a few minutes’ – state media<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rescuers will reach the helicopter location in “a few minutes”, the head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society Pirhossein Kolivand has told state media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that they were approximately 2km from where the hard landing is thought to have taken place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Search teams locate wreckage site<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Search teams have found the crash site of the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, state TV says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The head of Iran’s Red Crescent society has told state TV that the situation is not “good”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/sub><\/strong><\/em> <\/strong><\/em>BBC<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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