photo - east newsThe coffins of Lech Kaczynski and wife Maria left Warsaw at 8.15 this morning on their last journey to Krakow where they will be buried today.
At Warsaw airport were daughter Marta and Minister in the Office of the President Maciej Łopiński.
From Balice airport in Krakow the coffins is being taken to the St. Mary's Basilica adjacent to the Main Markey Square where a funeral mass will begin at 14.00 CET.
Acting president Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and family members of the dead are travelling to Krakow by train this morning.
Hear our correspondant John Beachamp talking to Poles queuing to get tickets for the funeral service, Saturday.
At 15.30 the funeral procession will begin to make its way to Wawel Castle where, at 16.30, the coffins will be put into the crypt and long journey from Smolensk air base where the presidential couple died will be over.
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