The helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian crashed on Sunday in a dense forest in the mountains of East Azerbaijan province, Mehr Agency reports.

The helicopter’s passengers, including Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province Malek Rahmati and Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the leader of the Islamic Revolution in the East Azerbaijan province, along with several other people died in the crash.