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Iranian Red Crescent says bodies recovered from Raisi helicopter crash site

CGTN

 , Updated 15:01, 20-May-2024

The Iranian Red Crescent said on Monday that the bodies of President Ebrahim Raisi and others who died in a helicopter crash had been recovered, and search operations had ended. 

"We are in the process of transferring the bodies of the martyrs to Tabriz" in Iran's northwest, Red Crescent chief Pirhossein Koolivand told state TV, adding that "the search operations have come to an end." 

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