IRCS Confirms No Survivors Found at Site of President Raisi’s Helicopter Crash
Tehran, The Gulf Observer: The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), Pir-Hossein Kolivand, has announced that no survivors have been found at the site of the helicopter crash carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
In an early Monday interview with the semi-official Tasnim news agency, Kolivand stated, “No trace of survivors has been seen after the discovery of the site of the crashed helicopter.”
Earlier in the day, Kolivand revealed that the crash site had been located after hours of extensive searching in a mountainous region of East Azerbaijan province. The helicopter, carrying President Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and several other senior officials, crashed on Sunday afternoon in the Varzaqan region. The officials were returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on Iran’s border with the Republic of Azerbaijan.
