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Mourners lined the streets of the Iranian metropolis of Tabriz on Tuesday (21 May) for the funeral of President Ebraham Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash days earlier.

A automobile carried the our bodies of Raisi, in addition to the Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, a senior cleric from Tabriz, a Revolutionary Guard official and three crew members.

The crash on Sunday killed all eight individuals aboard the Bell 212 helicopter that Iran bought within the early 2000s, in accordance with the state-run IRNA information company.

The group had been discovered lifeless on Monday hours after their helicopter crashed in fog.

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