Downed jet had bomb: Russian Federation

Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s FSB security service, said in televised comments that traces of foreign-made explosive had been found on fragments of the downed plane and on passengers’ personal belongings.

The crash prompted Britain to restrict flights to the resort, and Moscow to all Egyptian airports while barring the national carrier EgyptAir from Russian Federation.

According to the Kremlin, Bortnikov said that a bomb with an equivalent of 1 kilogramme of TNT had been planted on the plane. On the other hand, the Islamic State branch on Sinai claimed that the attack came as a response to Russia’s deployment in Syria, “defending” President Bashar al-Assad.

Also on Tuesday, a USA defense official said Russian Federation had conducted a “significant number of strikes” in Raqqa in northern Syria in the past several hours. Officials of the country haven’t discarded the possibility of terrorism, although they said they want to wait until the investigations are complete.

Within hours of the announcement Russian Federation pounded ISIS with cruise missiles launched from submarines and missiles dropped by its long-range Bear bombers.

This loader received this suitcase from an employee of the Sharm el-Sheikh airport, Reuters reported, citing the sources in the Egyptian security agencies, RIA Novosti reported.

“We must be doing this without any limitations, to know each of the terrorists by name”.

A military investigator from Russia stands near the debris of a Russian airliner at its crash site.

Russia will send a few 40 additional military planes to Syria, Russian military officers aid. Speaking in Sharm el-Sheikh following a Cabinet meeting there, Ismail said Egypt would “bear in mind” the Russian conclusion.

Egypt is concerned about the impact on its tourism industry. “We will find them in any part of the world and punish them”, he said.

“This is not the first time Russian Federation experiences barbaric terrorist crime, usually without any obvious internal or external causes, the way it was with the explosion at the railway station in Volgograd at the end of 2013”. The investigation has focused on baggage handlers, their security supervisors and also personnel involved in aircraft catering, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

“It’s necessary to work out with them a plan of joint actions both at sea and in the air”, Putin said, adding that both the chief of the general staff and the defence ministry had received orders to that effect.

Putin did not expressly blame IS for the attack on the passenger jet, but pledged to ramp up air strikes in Syria “so that the criminals understand that vengeance is inevitable”.