Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash in Russia killed.
the president's plane with 132 people on board has crashed on landing on the Russian Smolensk airport, said the Governor of the Smolensk region, with on Saturday. There were no survivors. At the time of the accident was thick fog over the airport.
Kaczynski had been on the road to Katyn, to commemorate the Polish victims of the massacre, the Soviet secret police in 1940, committed some 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals. On board the plane were also Kaczynski's wife Maria, the Polish central bank chief Slawomir Skrzypek, Franciszek Gagor Army Chief and the Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer. With the President according to official figures also flew members of Poles who were murdered in Katyn.
The aircraft type Tupolev-154 crashed about two kilometers from the airport in a forest and caught fire. Rescue teams were trying to passengers to draw from the destroyed machine.
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