British investigators working to determine the cause of the downing of the Russian plane in Egypt believe that a bomb was planted in the trunk of the plane before the plane took off, the BBC reports today.
The youngest victim of the tragic crash of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt last weekend could hold the key to the mysterious crash.
Namely, the body of 10-month-old Darina Gromova, whose photo from the airport in St. Petersburg before leaving for summer vacation in Sharm el-Sheuk became a symbol of this tragedy, was found as much as 30 kilometers from the place where the plane crashed.
This indicates that the spacecraft most likely exploded earlier than experts had thought until now.
After this discovery, investigators expanded the search area, which could lead to new findings.
The little girl's father was 27-year-old Aleksey Gromov, the son of a Russian military pilot and IT expert, and his wife is an exhibition organizer and was on maternity leave. Their bodies have not yet been found.
As little Darina's grandmother told the Russian media, they insisted on taking the child on a trip to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, "so that she could dip her feet in the sea" and did not want to leave her.
The Brtina government has suspended flights, there is a suspicion of a bomb in the luggage
The British government suspended all flights to and from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh two days ago.
The decision was made after they came to the conclusion that the accident was most likely caused by an act of terrorism.
Russian experts claim that there are no traces of explosives on the bodies of the victims of the plane crash, but a Russian aviation expert said today that the investigation is also examining the possibility of a hidden object in the plane that could have caused the disaster.
They received intelligence on communications between extremists in the Sinai Peninsula.
The BBC's Frank Gardner said that while British officials have not ruled out the possibility that the plane went down due to a technical fault, they consider it unlikely.
Investigators in the British intelligence service suspect that someone who had access to the luggage compartment of the plane planted an explosive device inside the plane on top of the luggage before the plane took off.
And the British newspaper "The Times" writes that based on the information they obtained through wiretapping, American and British intelligence believe that a bomb was brought into the plane.
The tone and content of the messages convinced analysts that the bomb was brought into the plane by a passenger or one of the airport staff, the newspaper said.
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