WARSAW — A 2010 plane crash outside Smolensk that claimed the lives of Poland's president and 94 others is once again troubling ties between Moscow and Warsaw after the revelation that some grieving families received the wrong bodies to bury.
The remains of Polish Solidarity activist Anna Walentynowicz were swapped with the body of another victim, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Investigators exhumed the two bodies last week after inconsistencies in documents provided by Russia, which oversaw the local investigation of the Smolensk disaster, raised doubts whether the correct remains were passed on to families.
(Reuters)
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