Iranian president's helicopter in "hard landing" state media reports

A helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without elaborating.

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00:00 A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has suffered a hard landing, according

00:05 to state media reports. The Foreign Minister Hossein Amiradollahian was also on board.

00:12 A rescue helicopter tried to reach the area on Sunday where authorities believe the helicopter

00:16 is but it couldn't land due to the heavy mist, emergency services reported. One media report

00:22 said it had come down in a forest near the city of Julfa, which is on the border with

00:26 Azerbaijan. But another media report said the landing site was further east, near the

00:31 village of Uzi.

00:32 [SWOOSH]