At dawn on May 20, rescuers spotted a helicopter from a distance of about two kilometers. According to media reports, “no signs of life” were found at the scene of the accident.
Rescuers on May 20 found a helicopter that had crashed the previous day in the mountainous northwest of Iran. On board the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials. IRNA reported this, as well as Tasnim.
As AP wrote, citing the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kollivand, early Monday morning, rescuers spotted a helicopter from a distance of about two kilometers. At that time, 12 hours had passed since the helicopter disappeared.
According to media reports, “no signs of life” were found at the scene of the accident.
It was previously reported that a Turkish drone discovered the crash site of the missing Iranian President’s helicopter in the mountains near Iran’s border with Azerbaijan and Turkey.
According to IRNA, search and rescue teams are heading to the possible site of the accident. However, this news has not been confirmed by official sources.
The Turkish long-range UAV Akinji also found a thermal emission site that could be the crash site of the helicopter.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the drone’s detection of a heat source that is likely the wreckage of a helicopter.
As Mehr wrote, along with Iran’s President, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, who was traveling with Raisi, also died in the plane crash.
In addition to them, in the helicopter were the governor of East Azarbaijan province of Iran, Malek Rahmati, the representative of the leader of the Islamic revolution in East Azarbaijan province, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, and several other unnamed people. They all died.
ZMI informed that the rioters found the place where the helicopter of the President of Iran fell.
Video: Tasnim pic.twitter.com/DcEofJbtIu— Ukrainian Pravda ✌️ (@ukrpravda_news) May 20, 2024
Let’s remember that on Sunday, May 19, a helicopter carrying the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, had a “hard landing.”
As reported, Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisi has been assassinated.
Source: korrespondent
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