IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian perished in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area near the country’s border with Azerbaijan, state media and officials said, according to Reuters.

After an overnight search in blizzard conditions, the helicopter’s wreckage was found today. A senior Iranian official told Reuters that there were no survivors of the crash that occurred yesterday.

There was no official word on the crash’s cause, but state television reported that images showed the helicopter slammed into a mountain peak. IRNA, a state news agency, identified the helicopter model as a US-made Bell 212.