Iranian Sports Minister Hamid Sajjadi is in a medically induced coma in Tehran, Tasnim reports.

No visitors are allowed into the hospital to speed up the recovery process.

Sajjadi suffered a head injury in a helicopter crash Thursday in the city of Bafta, in the southern province of Kerman.

Esmail Ahmadi, an adviser to the sports minister, died in the crash as the helicopter landed on a soccer field.

Sixteen other passengers, including four crew members, were also injured.