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10 Apr. 2020 / 17:15

10 years after Smolensk air crash

Senior officials laid wreaths at a monument in the capital Warsaw to honour late president Lech Kaczynski who died in the crash, walking in single file and guarded by police wearing surgical masks to protect them from the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reports.

The crash in thick fog near Smolensk in western Russia was Poland’s worst air disaster since World War Two and stunned the country.

President Andrzej Duda, an ally of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) which was founded by Kaczynski and twin brother Jaroslaw, expressed regret that the coronavirus outbreak in Poland made it impossible to mark the tragedy properly.

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