Poland to probe Soviet role in death of wartime leader on RAF plane

Polish prosecutors say they want access to classified British documents after they launched an investigation into the death of Poland's wartime leader General Wladsylaw Sikorski.

Investigators at Poland's Institute for National Remembrance, the body charged with probing crimes committed during the war, want to determine whether the general, who was also Polish prime minister, died in accident or was assassinated.

General Sikorski died in July 1943 when his RAF Liberator bomber crashed into the sea off Gibraltar just seconds after taking off for England.