Poland gives aid to kin of plane crash victims

Poland's government has started providing financial help to families of the victims of the April 10 plane crash that killed the president and first lady, an official said Tuesday.

Eighty-seven families have so far gotten 40,000 zlotys ($13,800) each, and the government intends to provide additional help to families with children and widowed spouses without jobs, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said.

Also Tuesday, prosecutors investigating the crash said it could take several months to determine the exact cause.

Poles are eager to understand exactly what caused the worst tragedy to strike the country since World War II. Officials have so far pointed to human error but Col. Zbigniew Drozdowski, one of the military investigators, told a news conference in Warsaw that all theories are still being considered.

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