A helicopter carrying Iranian Sports Minister Hamid Sajjad and his entourage crashed on Thursday while landing at a stadium in Baft, Kerman province of southeastern Iran.
A helicopter carrying Iran’s sports minister Hamid Sajjadi and 11 others crashed in south-central Iran on Thursday, killing one person and causing Sajjadi to suffer from a brain bleed, state media reported.
Esmail Ahmadi, an advisor to the sports minister, was killed in the crash, state media said, adding that Sajjadi was being transferred to a hospital for treatment.
The helicopter crashed as it was preparing to land in the sport complex of Baft, a small city in Kerman province, the official IRNA news agency reported, citing an eyewitness.