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"On Saturday, President Kaczynski"s Tu-154 airplane crashed when landing near the town of Pechorsk, Smolensk region, in heavy fog," Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Russian Prosecutor General"s Investigations Committee said. "There were 132 people on board the plane, including the president and his spouse."
In a conflicting report, a spokesperson for Russian Emergencies Ministry said there were 96 people on board.
"According to the latest information, there were 96 people on board including 88 [from the] official delegation," the Emergencies Ministry spokesperson said.
Both sources said there were no survivors.
Russia"s Rossiya-24 television showed footage of the crash scene showing wreckage of the plane scattered across a field with the airplane"s wing raising high like a monument.
"The crash to the ground was so strong that the plane burst into small pieces," the Rossiya-24 correspondent at the scene said.