i spoke to kasra naji from bbc persian, who took us through today�*s events.doff, an informalfuneral for the eight people who died in this incident, including president raisi and his foreign minister, mr hossein amirabdollahian. we saw crowds of people in the streets of tabriz, which is the centre capital of the eastern azerbaijan province of iran, in north—west iran. and of course, the significance being they were on their way to that city when this accident... when the helicopter crashed. and the site of the crash is about 100 kilometres north of the city. so what we have seen is a big truck, open truck today driving amongst the crowd today in the city centre, carrying the coffins of the president and the foreign minister and others who were killed. and we saw people throwing flowers at the procession and the truck and the coffins. the ceremony has been going on for some time, some two hours, two and a half hours, probably go on for another hour or two. there�*s a huge crowd. we�*re talking, from what i�*ve seen on the iranian state television coverage, we�*

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