(21 May 2024)
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Sanaa, Yemen – 21 May 2024
1. Wide of Iranian embassy in Sanaa
2. Close of lowered Iranian flag above embassy
3. Various of Yemeni citizens leaving flowers at the embassy door, reading Quran
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Al-Ezzi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Official in Houthi-controlled Sanaa:
"We offered our condolences to our brothers at the (Iranian) embassy and through them to the leadership and people of the (Iranian) Islamic Republic. This is a great and painful tragedy, the passing of the greats of this nation (Iran)."
5. Various of banners (Arabic) "Our hearts with you," and pictures of the dead on the embassy door
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Abu Ali, resident:
"We extend our condolences to the Iranian people and their leadership for this painful incident, and we share their grief and tragedy."
7. Close of a picture of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
8. Close of Iranian flag lowered on mast
STORYLINE:
Mourners offered their condolences outside the Iranian embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Tuesday for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials who were killed in a helicopter crash.
Hussein Al-Ezzi, an official in Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, labelled the crash on Sunday "painful."
"This is a great and painful tragedy, the passing of the greats of this nation (Iran)," he added.
The crash on Sunday killed all eight people aboard the Bell 212 helicopter that Iran purchased in the early 2000s, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
The group were found dead on Monday hours after their helicopter crashed in fog, leaving the Islamic Republic without two key leaders as extraordinary tensions grip the wider Middle East.
AP video shot by Maad AL-Zekri
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