The Oct. 31 crash of a Russian passenger jet that killed all 224 on board was caused by a homemade bomb apparently smuggled onto the aircraft at Egypt’s Sharm el Sheik resort, Russian security officials said Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to track down and punish those behind the disaster “wherever they are on the planet.” The Federal Security Service, or FSB, the successor agency to the Soviet KGB, announced a $50-million bounty for identification and capture of those responsible for the disaster. “According to our experts, a homemade explosive device equivalent to 1 kilogram of TNT went off on board, which caused the plane to break up in the...
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