(Bloomberg) — U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's office said that a bomb may have brought down the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt on Saturday.
The statement from the usually cautious British government is the strongest indicator yet that terrorists may have been responsible for the crash of the Metrojet Airbus Group SE A321, which was carrying 224 people. So far there haven't been any findings released by investigators suggesting whether a bomb, some other explosion or a structural failure caused the plane to break into pieces and fall to the ground.
"While the investigation is still ongoing we cannot say categorically why the Russian jet crashed," Cameron's office said in an e-mailed statement on Wednesday. "But as more information has come to light we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device."
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