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Iran incident: President Raisi dead

He was on board a crashed helicopter

The President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter accident in recent hours. The accident was apparently caused by poor weather conditions. According to a first reconstruction of the accident, the Bell 412 helicopter (registration 6-9221) of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force was part of a convoy composed of two other aircraft that took off from the province of East Azerbaijan. Suddenly,...

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Tehran, Iran, 05/20/2024 08:32
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