Plane crash was terrorist act, Russian Security Service says

The Russian plane crash in Sinai, Egypt, was caused by a terrorist attack as traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane, Federal Security Service director Aleksandr Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin, RT reports.

“We can say that that [Sinai plane crash] was a terror act,” Bortnikov told Putin.

Flight 7K9268 went down on 31 October minutes after taking off the Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport, killing 224 people on board, most of them Russians.

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