Updating your news feed...
NaYourNews is an online news aggregating website where only fact checked stories are published.
Get fact checked breaking news and time-sensitive alerts directly in your inbox.
![Panic as gunmen abduct passengers along Onitsha-Owerri road [VIDEO]](/_next/image?url=%2Fapi%2Fimage-proxy%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fdailypost.ng%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2022%252F04%252FUnknown-Gunmen.jpg&w=256&q=75)
Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash at age 63.
CNN confirmed his death, citing reports by Iranian news outlets.
According to the report, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was also among those killed, along with seven others.
Daily Post reported earlier that a helicopter carrying Raisi was involved in a hard landing while visiting a northern region and his condition is currently unknown.
His death comes on the heels of a fraught moment in the Middle East, with war raging in Gaza.
Iran’s government convened an “urgent meeting†on Monday, according to Iranian state news agency, IRNA.
