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Turkish drone traces suspected heat source of Raisi's crashed chopper

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An intensive search is underway after a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other senior officials suffered a "hard landing" in northwestern province of East Azerbaijan. The landing area had been narrowed to a radius of 2 kilometers. Türkiye has dispatched a drone to assist. Ankara-based Anadolu agency said on social media platform X that the drone has identified a "source of heat suspected to be wreckage of helicopter carrying the Iranian president, and shared its coordinates with Iranian authorities."

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