Polish Mourners Gather to Honor President and First Lady
Throngs of Polish mourners gathered to pay their respects to their late President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria Kaczynska, whose bodies lay in closed coffins in Warsaw's presidential palace Tuesday as the investigation into the plane crash that killed them and 94 others in Smolensk, Russia, continued.
Throngs of Polish mourners gathered to pay their respects to their late President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria Kaczynska, whose bodies lay in closed coffins in Warsaw’s presidential palace Tuesday as the investigation into the plane crash that killed them and 94 others in Smolensk, Russia, continued. –KA
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Parliament held a special observance in memory of the president and the 18 lawmakers killed in the plane crash. In the assembly hall, framed portraits of the lawmakers and flowers bedecked their now-empty seats.
The names of the victims were read out, and Senate Speaker Bogdan Borusewicz, his voice breaking, declared the crash the “greatest tragedy in Poland’s postwar history.”
Investigators have suggested that human error may have been to blame in Saturday’s crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others. The Tu-154 went down while trying to land in dense fog at Smolensk in western Russia. All aboard were killed, including Kaczynski and dozens of Polish political, military and religious leaders.
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