MOSCOW // The Kremlin said for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb brought down a Russian passenger plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on October 31, killing all 224 people on board.
“One can unequivocally say that it was a terrorist act,” Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB security service, told a meeting chaired by president Vladimir Putin, according to a transcript published on the Kremlin’s web site. Citing experts, he said the plane disintegrated in midair due to a bomb with the equivalent of a kilo of TNT.
Mr Putin has vowed to find and punish the attackers who brought down the Metrojet plane, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
“We will search for them anywhere they might hide. We will find them in any part of the world and punish them,” Mr Putin told Mr Bortnikov late on Monday, calling the attack “one of the bloodiest crimes”.
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