A helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has been involved in an accident.

State media reports say Raisi was heading to the city of Tabriz, in the north west of Iran, after returning from an Iran-Azerbaijan border area.

According to local media, the Bell 212 helicopter – one of three travelling in a convoy – made a “hard landing” after it got into difficulties in heavy fog in the north of the country

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said rescuers were still trying to reach the site due to the difficult weather conditions.

The cause of the helicopter crash is not yet known – but Iran has a poor air transport safety record.

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