This grab taken from handout video footage released by the Iranian Red Cescent on 20 May, 2024 shows search and rescue teams as they try to locate President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter which went missing in a mountainous area of northwest Iran. Raisi was declared dead on 20 May, 2024, after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain region, sparking mourning in the Islamic republic.
This grab taken from handout video footage released by the Iranian Red Cescent on 20 May, 2024 shows search and rescue teams as they try to locate President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter which went missing in a mountainous area of northwest Iran. Raisi was declared dead on 20 May, 2024, after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain region, sparking mourning in the Islamic republic.

Iranian Red Crescent says bodies recovered from Raisi helicopter crash site

"We are in the process of transferring the bodies of the martyrs to Tabriz" in Iran's northwest, Red Crescent chief Pirhossein Koolivand told state TV, adding that "the search operations have come to an end."

This grab taken from handout video footage released by the Iranian Red Cescent on 20 May, 2024 shows rescuers recovering bodies at the site of President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash in a fog-shrouded mountainous area of northwest Iran. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead on 20 May, 2024, after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain region, sparking mourning in the Islamic republic.

The Iranian Red Crescent said Monday that the bodies of president Ebrahim Raisi and others who died in a helicopter crash had been recovered, and search operations had ended.