Polish PM, ruling party leader commemorate air crash victims

Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and ruling Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Warsaw on Sunday took part in ceremonies honouring the memory of the 96 people who died in the April 10, 2010 air crash near Smolensk.

PAP © 2016 / Tomasz Gzell / Warszawa, 10.04.2016. Prezes PiS Jarosław Kaczyński (2P), premier Beata Szydło (4L), marszałek Senatu Stanisław Karczewski (2L), wicemarszałek Sejmu, poseł PiS Joachim Brudziński (4L), podczas uroczystości przed pomnikiem ofiar na Cmentarzu Wojskowym na warszawskich Powązkach, 10 bm. w 6. rocznicę katastrofy smoleńskiej. 10 kwietnia 2010 r. w katastrofie samolotu Tu-154M pod Smoleńskiem zginęło 96 osób, w tym prezydent Lech Kaczyński i jego małżonka Maria. (zuz) PAP/Tomasz Gzell PAP © 2016 / Tomasz Gzell

Szydlo and Kaczynski, together with parliamentarians and air crash victims' family members, took part in a commemorative mass on Sunday morning at a church next to the Presidential Palace.

Next the PM and the PiS leader went to the Church of Divine Providence to light candles and lay wreaths at the graves of four Smolensk air crash victims buried there, including the last Polish president-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski.

Later Szydlo and Kaczynski together with Sejm Speaker Marek Kuchcinski, Senate Speaker Stanislaw Karczewski, Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz, Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak and a group of PiS parliamentarians laid flowers at a monument to the 96 victims of the crash at Warsaw's Powazki Military Cemetery and paid their respects to the victims who are buried at this cemetery. (PAP)

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