"The bodies of President Ebrahim Raisi and members of his delegation, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, have been identified and there is no need to conduct DNA tests," the head of Iran’s Disaster Management Organization has said, APA reports citing IRNA.
Mohammad Hassan Nami told IRNA on Monday that "all the bodies were recognizable and have been transferred to the Legal Medicine Organization."
Nami said all the bodies were recognizable despite burns. Among them, the body of Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashem, Friday Prayers leader of Tabriz, was in a better condition, he added.
"He was alive for up to an hour after the air accident and even had a telephone conversation with Mr. Gholam-Hossein Esmaeili, the head of the President's Office," the official pointed out.
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