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Bomb may have brought down Russian plane over Egypt, U.K. says

U.K. Prime Minister David Camerons office said that a bomb may have brought down the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt on Saturday.

By Robert Hutton | Updated on November 04, 2015
Egyptian Military on cars approach a plane's tail at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt, on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. (Maxim Grigoriev/Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations via AP)

(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.

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