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Russia: Plane brought down by homemade explosive device

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015.

MOSCOW – The head of Russia’s FSB security service says the crash of the passenger plane in Egypt was the result of a ‘terrorist’ act.

Alexander Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that a homemade explosive device blew up on the plane.

All 224 people on board the plane, most of them Russian tourists, were killed in the Oct. 31 crash.