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Cairo — Members of a Russian search and rescue team that was brought to Egypt after the October 31 Russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula have left the country to return to Moscow.
The team of 48 left yesterday. It had been recovering bodies at the crash site in Sinai’s Hassana area, some 70km south of the peninsula’s city of el-Arish.
The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh en route to St. Petersburg. All 224 people aboard the plane were killed.
Other Russians remain in Egypt as part of have cited intelligence reports as indicating the passenger plane was likely downed by a bomb on board.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev admitted on Monday that a plane crash in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula that killed 224 people was possibly a terrorist attack.
“The possibility of an act of terror is of course there as the reason for what happened,” he said in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta state newspaper, parts of which were published on Monday evening.
Britain and the United States, as well as international investigators, suspect a bomb exploded on board the A321 plane chartered by a Russian tourism firm, but Egyptian officials insist there is no evidence yet of an attack on the plane.
Russia had previously kept from blaming the October 31 crash on terrorists.
Earlier in the day, Israel said there was a “strong probability” that the Metrojet airliner crash was the result of an attack.— News24
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