The Akinci combat drone identified a heat source suspected to be the wreckage of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and shared its coordinates with Iranian authorities, which led to the location of the crashed aircraft.

It should be noted that Turkey sent 32 rescue teams and six vehicles from the eastern Van and Erzurum centers to Iran to help with the search operations, as announced by the Emergency and Disaster Management Agency on social media X.

In addition, Tehran had also requested the support of a helicopter equipped for night searches.

Meanwhile, Iranian rescue teams recovered the remains of the country's president and the other eight passengers who were on the helicopter that crashed on Sunday in northwestern Iran on Monday, the Red Crescent announced.

Akinci UAV identifies source of heat suspected to be wreckage of helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi and shares its coordinates with Iranian authorities pic.twitter.com/0tZtMc5oaP

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BREAKING — The most clear aerial footage of Raisi helicopter crash site in Iran so far pic.twitter.com/G2J9QfYUKO

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"We are transporting the bodies of the martyrs to Tabriz", the main city in the northwest of the country, the head of the Red Crescent, Pirhossein Koulivand, told state television, announcing the end of the search operations.

A few hours earlier, the Iranian government confirmed the death of the head of state, adding that the disaster will not cause "any disruption to the administration" of Iran.

The helicopter carrying Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian crashed in the Kalibar area.

The accident occurred on Sunday, when the delegation was returning from the border area with Azerbaijan, where Raisi inaugurated a dam in which his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, participated.

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