Publish Date: 4 March 2019 - 13:46

TEHRAN, Mar. 04 (MNA) – The spokesman for Iran Emergency Center announced the crash of an emergency helicopter in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province on Monday.

Mojtaba Khaledi said an emergency helicopter has crashed on Monday, killing all three pilots and two medical emergency technicians on board. 

According to reports, the helicopter was on a mission to aid a pregnant woman in a rural region of the province; however, it hit power transmissions lines on its course, crashed to the ground and went up in flames before reaching the patient.

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