TEHRAN - Five people were killed in a helicopter crash in the west of Iran on Monday, state IRIB TV reported.

The helicopter, belonged to Iran's Emergency Organization, faced the accident on the way to help a patient in the mountaineer area in Iran's Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, according to the report.

Jaafar Mardani, the deputy governor of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, told official IRNA news agency that the stroke of power lines was the cause of the accident.

The helicopter wreckage was found in Sartsheniz village, 35 kilometers away from Shahr-e-kord, the capital city of the province.