An image is being shared online with the false claim it shows the wreckage of the helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi.
The caption on a post sharing the photo of a damaged helicopter on Instagram says: “The wreckage of Iranian President Raisi’s helicopter has been found.”
However, the image is actually of a Eurocopter helicopter crash in Texas, United States, in January 2024.
President Raisi, along with seven other people including Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, died in a helicopter crash in the north of Iran on Sunday 19 May.
Iranian state media reported that the accident occurred as a result of fog and rain.
The image being incorrectly attributed to the crash is actually from an incident near Spofford in southern Texas…
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