A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski has crashed

At 8.56am in Smolensk, Russia, crashed plane carrying Polish President, his wife and several senior government figures. There were no survivors. They were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, when Soviets killed thousands of Poles.

On board were:

Lech Kaczyński

Maria Kaczyńska

Ryszard Kaczorowski

Jerzy Szmajdziński

Władysław Stasiak

Aleksander Szczygło

Paweł Wypych

Mariusz Handzlik

Andrzej Kremer

Franciszek Gągor

Andrzej Przewoźnik

Grzeogrz Dolniak

Przemysław Gosiewski

Zbigniew Wassermann

Janusz Kochanowski

Sławomir Skrzypek

Janusz Kurtyka

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