President of Poland Killed in Plane Crash in Russia

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An interior ministry officer stood guard near a part of the wreckage.

By ELLEN BARRY, MICHAL PIOTROWSKI and NICHOLAS KULISH

Published: April 10, 2010

MOSCOW — A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and dozens of the country’s top political and military leaders crashed in a heavy fog in western Russia on Saturday morning, killing everyone aboard. 

Television showed chunks of flaming fuselage scattered in a bare forest near Smolensk, where the president was arriving for a ceremony commemorating the murder of more than 20,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police after the Red Army invaded Poland.  

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