The Governor of Behshahr said that all five passengers on board were killed in a National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) helicopter which crashed in the Caspian sea on Sunday.

Khalegh Sajjadi told IRNA that the dead bodies of three of the passengers were recovered by Red Crescent Society rescue teams. 

He added that the search operation continues to recover the two other bodies.

A helicopter with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) crashed in the Caspian Sea early on Sunday.

Technical failure caused the crash after the helicopter with five on board took off on a mission to carry an injured person from an oil platform, Khaleq Sajjadi told IRNA.

Source: MENA