Iran buries late president at holy Shiite site after fatal helicopter crash

The flag-draped coffins of the late president Ebrahim Raisi and his companions who were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday are carried during their funeral ceremony in the city of Mashhad, Iran (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran interred late president Ebrahim Raisi at the holiest Shiite shrine in the nation on Thursday, days after a fatal helicopter crash killed him along with the country’s foreign minister and six others.

Mourners lowered Mr Raisi’s remains into a tomb at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, where Shiite Islam’s eighth imam is buried and millions of pilgrims visit each year.