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Polish plane crash victims identified

The remains of all victims in the plane crash that killed Poland's president have been identified and will shortly be handed over to Warsaw.

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The remains of all victims in the plane crash that killed Poland's president have been identified and will shortly be handed over to Warsaw, Russia's health minister said on Wednesday.

"Tatyana Golikova again expressed her condolences to the Polish people and said that all genetic identification work is complete and all remains are identified," the minister's spokeswoman said as quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency.

Russia was preparing to send the remaining 21 bodies back to Poland, the spokeswoman said.

President Lech Kaczynski's Tu-154 jet crashed while trying to land near the city of Smolensk in western Russia on April 10, killing all 96 people aboard, including many high-ranking Polish officials.


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