Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister killed in helicopter crash | ABC News

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have been killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, state media has reported, after search teams located the wreckage.
"President Raisi, the foreign minister and all the passengers in the helicopter were killed in the crash," a senior Iranian official also told Reuters, asking not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Mr Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were travelling in heavy fog after visiting a dam on the country's border with Azerbaijan when the helicopter suffered what state media described as a "hard landing" on Sunday, local time.
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