photo - East NewsA plane carrying coffins of thirty victims of the presidential plane’s crash in Smolensk landed in Warsaw late yesterday afternoon.
Among those who were returned to Poland were the body of former defence minister and candidate in this year’s presidential elections Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Wladyslaw Stasiak and Pawel Wypych from the Chancellery of the President, Slawomir Skrzypek, president of the National Bank of Poland, Krzysztof Putra, deputy Speaker of the Parliament and Piotr Nurowski, chief of the Polish Olympic Committee.
After a prayer, the coffins were transported from the military airport at Okecie to Torwar Hall, where the relatives of the dead will participate in a mourning mass.
The body of the last president in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski will arrive in Poland around noon today.
His coffin will be displayed at the Belvedere Palace. (pg/mg)