So far bodies of seventy one out of 96 victims of Saturday’s crash have been identified.  

According to the Russian news agency Interfax, thanks to analysis of documents, personal belongings, visual features and DNA tests morticians in Moscow managed to identify seventy bodies.

The body of President Kaczynski was identified in Smolensk at the crash site.  

On Wednesday, thirty bodies of the crash victims arrived in Poland, including former defence minister and candidate in this year’s presidential elections Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Wladyslaw Stasiak and Pawel Wypych from the Chancellery of the President and 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.

Today, thirty more bodies are expected to arrive, including the body of the last president in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, whose coffin will be displayed at the Belvedere Palace.

Twenty-six bodies still need to identified. (mg)