(Via Daily Mail) Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to hunt down and punish the terrorists responsible for downing a passenger jet over the Egyptian Sinai desert after it emerged a 1.5kg ‘home made’ bomb destroyed the aircraft.

Russian security services have admitted that they have found traces of explosives on a passenger jet which was blown up over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killing all 224 people on board.

A $50 million reward has reportedly been offered for information leading to the killers.

The Airbus A321 disappeared 23 minutes after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh airport en-route to St Petersburg. 

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on the Metrojet aircraft which crashed on October 31.

Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB security agency told Russian President Vladimir Putin: ‘One can say unambiguously that it was a terror act.

‘An improvised bomb with a capacity of up to 1.5 kg of TNT exploded on the fight.

‘As a result, the aircraft was torn apart in the air, which explains the large distance over which the pieces of the fuselage of the aircraft have scattered.’  (read more)

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