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Poland remembers victims of Smolensk crash amid continued controversy

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Poland remembers victims of Smolensk crash amid continued controversy

President Bronislaw Komorowski and his wife Anna attend a private service for relatives of the victims of the Smolensk plane crash at Presidential Palace chapel in Warsaw

Photo: Reuters

Poland remembers victims of Smolensk crash amid continued controversy

The remains of a plane that crashed in 2010, killing Poland's former president, Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, is shown to the media at a military aerodrome near the Russian city of Smolensk April 10, 2012.

Photo: Reuters

Thousands of people took part in a service at Warsaw’s St John’s cathedral to commemorate the second anniversary of the 2010 plane crash at Smolensk airport that killed Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and 94 including ministers, MPS, senators and high ranking military representatives.

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