Investigators ‘90% sure’ bomb downed Russian flight in Egypt

Egypt reacted angrily to the British decision to suspend the flights Sharm el-Sheikh, and they fear the effects of the decision on the country’s tourism industry. The plane delivered luggage of tourists from the Egyptian resort of Sharm-El-Sheikh.

The USA official said that a leading theory is that an airport worker may have planted the suspected bomb aboard the Russian plane.

Normally, three million Russian tourists descend on Egypt every year.

“Today is the busiest day in this sense”, he said, adding that more people were set to return home later yesterday.

But Mr Dvorkovich said Russian Federation was sending experts to inspect Egypt’s airports to see if security needed to be beefed up there.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) travel advice is still advising against all but essential air travel to Sharm El Sheikh.

British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond told the BBC on Sunday that if the bomb is confirmed, it will require a potential rethinking of airport security in all areas where the extremist group is active.

The move from Russian Federation comes as airport security officials told the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity last week that when it comes to luggage checks, airport chiefs “only care about appearances”.

“Where there’s a local higher threat, that will mean higher levels of security are required and that may mean additional costs and may mean additional delays at airports”.

But many other tourists seemed happy to stay. But if the flights to Britain depart as expected it will leave just over 11,000 Britons remaining in the Red Sea resort. He said his opinion was based on “what we hear and understand”.

“I think that we will be able to evacuate the majority of our holidaymakers over the next two weeks… but, if need be we’ll, of course, will continue to send planes to evacuate everybody”, Prime Minister Medvedev said.

British Airways says it is keeping the situation beyond Thursday “under review”, but is not taking bookings from new passengers on flights up to and including 23 November.

Muqaddam said Egypt was not given any information or evidence tied to reports suggesting a bomb took down the flight, and he urged the sources of the reports to pass along related evidence to Egyptian investigators.

Moscow acknowledged Monday for the first time a terrorist attack could have caused the October 31 Russian plane crash in Egypt, as thousands more tourists were evacuated from the country.

However, Egyptian security officials say he could be either 37-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Ali, who was born and raised in North Sinai, or Yasri Abdel Moniem Nufal, a former head of another militant organisation who escaped prison during the 2011 revolution.

As a choir sang, the bell of the world’s fourth-largest cathedral was tolling one time for each of the 224 victims.

Hammond told reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday that Britain has shared a few information with its partners but can not share a few “sensitive intelligence”.