A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife has crashed in western Russia and that at least 87 people have been killed.
The Polish Foreign Ministry confirmed that the president and his wife were aboard the plane that crashed near the city of Smolensk, after touching tree tops before landing.
(Photo above – courtesy BBC News)
The Tu-154 plane crash-landed and burst into flames near the Smolensk airport, about 400km west of Moscow.
The aircraft had a capacity of up to 90 people, although Russian news agencies reported 132 passengers on board.
The Polish officials, all presumed dead, were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, when the Soviets killed thousands of Poles.