Breaking news out of Iran, where state media has now
confirmed the death of President Ibrahim Raisi and the countries
foreign minister after a deadly helicopter crash.
Now rescue crews are now at a staging area.
Those are live pictures where they are trying to assess
where exactly the wreckage is and to begin their recovery
efforts.
Iranian officials say the helicopter ran into trouble amid heavy
fog on Sunday afternoon.
Images of the crash site in Iran's East Azerbaijan province
showed the remote mountainous area where the aircraft went down.
You are looking at a photo of it right there.
The president and other officials had been attending a ceremony
for the opening of a new dam near the border
with Azerbaijan.
Rescuers face difficult weather conditions overnight,
including cold and heavy fog as they scrambled to locate
the crash site site.
Iranians were urged to pray for the president amid news
of the crash,
with the country's supreme leader vowing that there will be
no disruption in Iran's work.