Rescue teams search for Iran's president after helicopter crash

A helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has been involved in an accident.

According to the state media the helicopter - one of three travelling in a convoy - made a "hard landing" after it got into difficulties in heavy fog in the north of the country.

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi says rescuers are currently searching the site.

Raisi was heading to the city of Tabriz, in the north west of Iran, after returning from an Iran-Azerbaijan border area.

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Source: BBC News