Polish president marks start of WWII

Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, marked the 82nd anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two in Wielun, a town in central Poland levelled by German bombers in the first hours of the war on September 1, 1939. The ceremony started before 4.40 a.m., the time when German aircraft began bombing the town despite its being of no military significance. The president said that the local hospital, which was marked with a big red cross, was one of the first targets for German pilots. "It was an act of terror, it was not an ordinary war," Duda said.