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Police exhume remains of former Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk in Lány
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- Czech police experts are exhuming Jan Masaryk’s remains from a family tomb in Lány.
- Investigators hope the examination may help clarify how Masaryk died after falling from a window of Prague’s Černín Palace in March 1948.
Police experts began exhuming the remains of former Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk from his family tomb at a cemetery in Lány.
The examination could help clarify the circumstances of Masaryk’s death in March 1948. He died after falling from a window at Prague’s Černín Palace.
Jakub Vinčálek, a spokesman for the Czech police presidium, confirmed the exhumation in response to a question from the Czech News Agency.
This may help clarify the circumstances of his death from March 1948 after the fall from a window of Prague’s Černín Palace.
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