Official says rescuers see helicopter that was carrying Iran’s president

In this photo provided by Moj News Agency, rescue teams’ vehicles are seen near the site of the incident of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan in northwestern Iran (Azin Haghighi, Moj News Agency via AP)

Rescuers have located a helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials that had apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran the day before.

As the sun rose on Monday, rescuers saw the helicopter from a distance of 1.25 miles, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, told state media.