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President Lech Kaczynski was 60 years old (Photo: President.pl)

Polish president dies in plane crash

Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and other members of his official delegation died on Saturday (10 April) in a plane crash while heading towards Russia for a commemoration of the Katyn massacre.

Sergei Antufiev, regional governor of Smolensk, near the Belarussian border, said there were no survivors in the crash. "It [the plane] clipped the tops of the trees, crashed down and broke into pieces," he told Russia-24 television news network by telephone.

The Polish foreign mi...

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