New Delhi:

A one-day state mourning will probably be noticed throughout India on Tuesday as a mark of respect for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, the Union Residence Ministry has introduced.

The nationwide flag will probably be flown at half-mast on all buildings the place it’s usually flown throughout India and there will probably be no official leisure throughout the interval of state mourning.

The Iranian president, the nation’s international minister and a number of other different officers have been discovered useless on Monday, hours after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous area of the nation’s northwest, Iran state media reported.

A house ministry spokesperson mentioned Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Hossein Amit-Abdollahian, the nation’s international minister, handed away in a helicopter crash.

“As a mark of respect to the departed dignitaries, the federal government of India has determined that there will probably be someday’s state mourning on Could 21 (Tuesday) all through India,” the spokesperson mentioned.

“On the day of mourning, the nationwide flag will probably be flown at half-mast all through India on all buildings the place the nationwide flag is flown usually and there will probably be no official leisure on the day,” the official added.

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