The death of President Lech Kaczynski and 96 others in a plane crash has sent Poland into shock.
Mourners in Warsaw turned out by the tens of thousands to sing the national anthem, wave the red and white Polish flag, and lay a carpet of candles and flowers at the presidential palace and nearby Pilsudski Square.
The presidential party was en route to a memorial service for Poles massacred by Soviet troops in World War II when its Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crashed in thick fog while approaching Smolensk airport, in the west of Russia.
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