Alexey Nikolsky/RIA Novosti
14:4511/04/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew back on Sunday to the site of the Polish plane crash near Smolensk in west Russia to pay last respects to Polish President Lech Kaczynski who was killed in the incident.
The Soviet-made TU-154 carrying Kaczynski hit the top of trees as it attempted in thick fog to land at a Smolensk airport in west Russia on Saturday morning, killing all the 97 people on board the plane.
The plane was taking Kaczynski and a delegation of top Polish officials to a ceremony to pay tribute to some 20,000 Polish officers who were executed in the Katyn forest and other locations by Soviet secret police in 1940.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the late Polish president, earlier on Sunday identified the body of Lech Kaczynski.
The press secretary of the regional governor said on Sunday that the Polish president's body would be delivered to Poland today.
The bodies of the other Polish plane crash victims have been delivered to Moscow for identification.
SMOLENSK, April 11 (RIA Novosti)
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