Mourners bid a second farewell to Anna Walentynowicz, a legendary figure in Poland's Solidarity movement, whose body was mistakenly buried in the wrong grave after her death in a 2010 plane crash near Smolensk.
The repeat funeral Mass for Walentynowicz in her hometown of Gdansk took place Friday after her body was exhumed and DNA tests confirmed that it had been switched with another female victim of the crash, which killed 96.
"Even her death, her second burial is as unusual as she was unusual," said opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of President Lech Kaczynski, who was also killed in the crash.
At least four more exhumations are expected this year over doubts concerning the identifications carried out in Moscow after the crash.
(AP)
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