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Polish first lady's body is returned to Warsaw

Tributes at presidential palace in Warsaw on 13 April 2010
Poland is in the middle of seven days of mourning over the air tragedy
The body of Poland's First Lady, Maria Kaczynska, has been flown to Warsaw to lie in state alongside that of her husband, President Lech Kaczynski.
Poland has seen an outpouring of grief since the couple and scores of other top Polish officials died in a plane crash in western Russia on Saturday.
Poland's parliament will hold a special session later to discuss the disaster.

President Kaczynski's body returned to Poland on Sunday. The funerals are expected to be held at the weekend.
The bodies of the first couple will begin lying in state on Tuesday or Wednesday.
DNA identification
Ninety-six people died when the plane clipped tree-tops as it tried to land at a former air base north of Smolensk city on Saturday morning.
SENIOR FIGURES KILLED
National leaders:
President Lech Kaczynski and wife Maria
Former President-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski
Top civil servant:
Slawomir Skrzypek National Bank of Poland chairman
Other politicians:
Wladyslaw Stasiak chief of the president's chancellery Aleksander Szczyglo chief of the National Security Office
Jerzy Szmajdzinski deputy speaker of the lower house Andrzej Kremer Foreign Ministry's undersecretary of state Stanislaw Komorowski deputy minister of national defence Przemyslaw Gosiewski Law and Justice party deputy chair
Military figures:
Franciszek Gagor chief of the general staff
Andrzej Blasik head of the air force
Andrzej Karweta head of the navy
Tadeusz Buk land forces commander
Aleksander Szczyglo head of the National Security Office
Cultural figures:
Andrzej Przewoznik head of Poland's Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
Tomasz Merta chief historical conservator
Pilot error in Polish air crash?
In pictures: Nations mourn
Russia-Poland thaw from tragedy
Russian officials say the pilots of the Soviet-built Tu-154 airliner had ignored weather warnings and repeatedly tried to land.
Polish prosecutors have stressed there is no evidence the crew were pressured by those onboard to ignore the advice.
The president and his party of senior Polish military and political officials had been due to attend a memorial for the Polish victims of a World War II massacre by Soviet secret police at Katyn.
At least 130 family members have been flown to the Russian capital to help forensic scientists identify their bodies. They are being aided by Polish and Russian psychologists.
Relatives have identified 45 of the victims, the Russian health minister said on Tuesday, reports AFP news agency.
Officials have warned that some of the bodies are so badly disfigured that DNA evidence will be needed.
President Kaczynski's body was identified on Saturday in Smolensk by his identical twin Jaroslaw, a former prime minister.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have devoted much time to dealing with the aftermath of the crash, and a day of mourning was held in Russia on Monday.
Russia's handling of the tragedy has been widely appreciated by many in Poland, though others suggest the thaw in relations may not last, the BBC's Duncan Kennedy reports from Warsaw.
Map of crashed flight 
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