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Poland exhumes body of Russian plane crash victim
Aug 29, 2011, 9:53 GMT
Warsaw - The body of a Polish parliamentarian who was killed in last year's plane crash in Russia was exhumed on Monday, military prosecutors said, after differences were found in Polish and Russian medical documents written after his death.
The body of parliamentarian Zbigniew Wasserman was exhumed in Krakow after prosecutors found differences in the Russian autopsy and medical documents from Polish hospitals. The body will be examined over the next several days.
Some victims' families and the Law and Justice party, of which Wassermann was a member, have said the Russian probe into the crash was biased.
They have also criticised the ruling party for not putting enough pressure on Moscow.
'I don't believe that the Russians conducted a reliable autopsy of my father's remains,' Wasserman's daughter Malgorzata told radio station RMF FM.
The plane crash on April 10, 2010 killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in Smolensk, Russia. Autopsies of the victims were conducted in Russia before the bodies were returned to Poland.
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