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Poland’s ex-Minister of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz, who now heads the Polish sub-commission to investigate the crash of a Tu-154 plane with former Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other senior officials of Poland in Russia’s Smolensk in 2010, has said the official cause behind the death of the crash victims was an explosion that occurred before the plane hit the ground.

Thus, the passengers died before the plane fell, he told the Polish public broadcaster TVP 1.

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