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		</div><p>The helicopter carrying Iran’s late president Ebrahim Raisi caught fire soon after it crashed into a mountain and there was no sign it had been attacked, state media reported.</p>
<p>The statement from the general staff of the armed forces in charge of investigating the crash was read out on Iranian state television late on Thursday.</p>
<p>The broadcast did not apportion any blame over the incident but said more details would come after further investigations.</p>
<p>The crash on Sunday killed Mr Raisi as well as the country’s foreign minister and six other people.</p>
<figure id="attachment_182462" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-182462" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1ED4DE8A-2274-4F1E-893F-7676DC67E22F.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-182462" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-182462" class="wp-caption-text">Iranians attend a funeral ceremony for the late President Ebrahim Raisi and other victims of the crash in Tehran</figcaption></figure>
<p>The general staff’s statement said the communications between the control tower and the crew of the helicopter before the crash contained nothing suspicious.</p>
<p>It said the last communication of the crashed helicopter was between it and two helicopters which accompanied it some 90 seconds before the crash.</p>
<p>There was no sign anything had been fired at the helicopter and its flight path did not change, the statement said.</p>
<p>The aging Bell helicopter went down in a foggy, remote mountainous region of north-west Iran on Sunday.</p>
<p>The crash site was discovered on Monday morning with all eight on board dead.</p>
<p>Mr Raisi was buried in a tomb at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad on Thursday.</p>
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