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| Russia plane crash: 'Terror act' downed A321 over Egypt's Sinai | Russia plane crash: 'Terror act' downed A321 over Egypt's Sinai |
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| Russia's security chief says an act of terror brought down the Russian A321 airliner in Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board. | |
| "Traces of foreign explosives" were found on debris from the Airbus plane, FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov told Russian President Vladimir Putin. | "Traces of foreign explosives" were found on debris from the Airbus plane, FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov told Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| Mr Putin vowed to "find and punish" those behind the attack over the Sinai peninsula. A branch of so-called Islamic State said it downed the plane. | |
| Nearly all the dead were Russians. | Nearly all the dead were Russians. |
| In a statement on the Kremlin's website, Mr Bortnikov said a bomb had been planted on board the Kogalymavia jet, equivalent to up to 1kg of TNT. | |
| It blew up on 31 October, shattering the plane mid-air, he said, "which explains the wide dispersal of fuselage pieces". | |
| Mr Putin said that Russia must hunt those responsible "indefinitely, find out who the individuals were". | |
| "We'll look for them everywhere, wherever they are hiding. We'll find them in any corner of the planet and punish them." | |
| Heavier Russian raids | |
| Most of the passengers were Russian tourists flying home from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. | |
| Mr Putin also said that Russia's air strikes in Syria "must not only be continued - they must be intensified so that the criminals understand that retribution is inevitable". | |
| Russian warplanes are supporting Syrian government forces against various rebel groups, including so-called Islamic State (IS) militants and other Islamists. | |
| Russia's military commanders were also at the meeting with Mr Putin and the Federal Security Service (FSB) chief. |