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Polish President and wife to be receive state funeral

Poland’s first couple to be buried in state funeral on Sunday after Polish president Wife Maria Kaczynski flown home today.

Mourners go by the two coffins carrying the Polish first couple in the Presidential Palace - Photo by: AP
Mourners go by the two coffins carrying the Polish first couple in the Presidential Palace - Photo by: AP

The bodies of Poland’s first couple Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria Kaczynska are at the Presidential palace awaiting burial on Sunday at 2 PM local time at the Krakow’s Wawel cathedral, the 1,000-year-old cathedral is the main burial site of Polish kings and former leaders.

There are also leaders from other nations expected at the funeral including Russia’s president, mitry Medvedev.

Poland’s first ladies body arrived in a military plane just after 10:30 am at Warsaw’s Okecie airport with Poland’s red and white flag over it. The body was met by Marta Kaczynska, her only child and the late presidents twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

Video of body of late Poland President Lech Kaczynski arriving in Poland.

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There have been many conspiracy theories already emerging of the plane crash but Russian officials are strictly saying that the plane went down due to human error in the part of the Polish pilot.

The plane carrying the Polish officials went down on Saturday under dense fog in Smolensk in western Russia killing everyone aboard.

Russian officials have said that they had warned the pilot three times not to land the plane and go to a near by airport, but the pilot had ignored the advice of the traffic controllers as there was a tight schedule to meet for the Polish officials.

The Polish officials were due to attend a remembrance ceremony of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre in which thousands of Poles were killed by Russian troops in the Soviet era.

There have also been rumours that the Polish pilot and Russian traffic controllers at the airport had poor understanding of each other as neither new each others language.

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