'No survivors' as Polish President's plane crashes in Russia

The governor of a Russian region where a plane carrying Poland’s President has crashed said there are no survivors.

Smolensk governor Sergei Anufriev made the statement to state news channel Rossiya-24 about an hour after today‘s crash.

The Tu-154 plane crashed near the Smolensk airport, about 275 miles west of Moscow.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were aboard the plane, according to the Polish foreign ministry.

A spokeswoman for Russia’s Emergencies Ministry, Irina Andrianova, said 87 people were killed but she had no details on their identity.