Mourners attend the burial ceremony of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Mashhad, Iran. | Photograph credit score: Reuters
Iran’s navy has up to now discovered no proof of prison exercise within the helicopter crash that killed the nation’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, and 7 others, state media reported.
The 63-year-old died on Could 19 after his helicopter crashed within the nation’s mountainous northwest whereas getting back from the inauguration of a dam on the border with Azerbaijan.
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“No bullet holes or related impacts have been noticed within the wreckage of the helicopter,” signifies a preliminary report from the Normal Workers of the Armed Forces revealed by the official IRNA information company on Thursday evening.
“The helicopter caught hearth after impacting an elevated space,” he mentioned, including that “no suspicious content material was noticed throughout communications between the surveillance tower and the flight crew.”
Raisi’s helicopter had been flying on a “pre-planned route and didn’t depart the designated flight path” earlier than the crash.
The report states that the wreckage of the helicopter was discovered by Iranian drones early on Monday, however that “the complexity of the realm, fog and low temperatures” hampered the work of search and rescue groups.
The navy mentioned “extra time is required” to research the crash and would announce extra particulars later.
Raisi was buried in his hometown of Mashhad on Thursday, concluding days of funeral ceremonies in a few of Iran’s main cities, together with the capital, attended by crowds of mourners.
Amongst these killed within the incident was Overseas Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who was additionally buried on Thursday within the city of Shahre Ray, south of the capital.
