US President Barack Obama and high-ranking US officials have said that they have received intelligence suggesting a bomb may have caused the crash.
President Obama told the media “I think there is a possibility that there was a bomb on board and were taking that very seriously.“
The plane, carrying numerous Russian nationals, crashed over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt while en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to Moscow. According to a statement from Moscow, President “Putin has accepted the recommendations of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee to suspend flights with Egypt…the President has also instructed to provide assistance to Russian citizens to return from Egypt.“
