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The Iranian Red Crescent denied on Sunday information advanced by state television IRNA that the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had been found.
According to the secretary general of the Red Crescent, Yaqub Soleimani, quoted by Sky News, the helicopter has not been found and only the coordinates where the crash occurred have been reached.
IRNA had reported that the aircraft had been found several hours after it was reported to have made an "emergency landing" after a visit to Azerbaijan.
The same station previously said "according to unconfirmed information, the helicopter carrying President Raisi had an accident in the province of East Azerbaijan".
The incident with the aircraft carrying Ebrahim Raisi occurred near the city of Jolfa, about 600 km northwest of the capital Tehran.
The search was initially carried out by 16 rescue teams. However, according to Iranian emergency services, there are now several dozen teams involved. The air searches were hampered by bad weather and heavy fog.
Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, spoke about the incident and asked citizens to "pray for the health" of the passengers.
"We hope that God Almighty will return the respected and honorable president and his companions to the arms of the nation. Everyone should pray for the health of this group of servants", he said, quoted by the BBC.
"The people of Iran should not worry, there will be no disruption in the country's work," he added.
O líder supremo do Irão, o 'ayatollah' Ali Khamenei, apelou hoje aos iranianos para "não se preocuparem" quando prosseguem as buscas do helicóptero do Presidente iraniano, Ebrahim Raisi, que se despenhou no noroeste do país.
Lusa | 19:29 - 19/05/2024Among the other authorities on board the helicopter were the governor of the province of East Azerbaijan and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir Abdollahian.
An Iranian source told Reuters news agency that contact had been made with a passenger and a crew member "on several occasions". "It suggests that there may be survivors and that they may be very close to the crash site, which, again, would be a moment of hope", he added.
Earlier, a senior Iranian government official, who declined to be identified, said, before the helicopter was found, that the lives of the president and the foreign minister were "at risk following the helicopter crash".
The European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, announced that, "following a request for assistance from Iran", the European Union will activate the Copernicus mapping system, "in view of the helicopter accident reportedly carrying the President of #Iran and its foreign minister".
Upon Iranian request for assistance we are activating the 🇪🇺's @CopernicusEMS rapid response mapping service in view of to the helicopter accident reportedly carrying the President of #Iran and its foreign minister. #EUSolidarity
— Janez Lenarčič (@JanezLenarcic) May 19, 2024
Raisi had been in Azerbaijan on Sunday morning to inaugurate a dam with his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in what is the third dam built by the two countries on the Aras River.
You can see, in the gallery above, images of the search operation.
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