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peng song/Getty Images(MOSCOW) The bodies of those individuals who died in the August plane crash that killed Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin contained "fragments of hand grenades," according to the Russian Investigative Committee tapped to look into the crash.
The plane crash on Aug. 23 in the Tver region of Russia killed 10 people, including Prigozhin and Wagner Group co-founder Dmitry Utkin.
"The head of the Investigative Committee reported just the other day that the bodies of those killed in the plane crash were found fragments of hand grenades," President Vladimir Putin said at the Valdai Club meeting in Sochi, Russia on Thursday. "There was no external impact on the plane. This is already an established fact. The fact is the result of an examination conducted by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation."
Prigozhin rose to become a powerful international paramilitary leader and was a former close ally of Putin.
The crash may