Russian media reports have said the terrorist bomb that downed an airliner inEgypt at the end of October was probably brought on board by personnel at Sharm el-Sheikh airport and set off by a timer.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin confirmed that a bomb had destroyed the plane and vowed to hunt down those responsible. Before then it had been reluctant to admit the likelihood of a terrorist attack against the St Petersburg-bound Airbus A321 that crashed, killing all 224 people on board.
An Isis-affiliated group claimed credit for downing the plane in a statement on the day of the crash but did not describe its methods. The Isis online magazine, Dabiq, published on Wednesday what it claimed was an exclusive photograph of the improvised bomb, made from a Schweppes drink can, used in the attack.
The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Wednesday that investigators from the FSB intelligence agency had discovered a one-metre hole in a fragment of the plane’s fuselage with its edges turned out, indicating an explosion.
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