Putin Vows to Find & Punish Culprits of Metrojet Plane Crash

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Russian Plane brought Down in 'Terror Act'; Putin Vows to 'Find And Punish' Attackers





Russia's President Vladimir Putin has vowed to find and punish the attackers who brought down a plane with 224 people on board in Egypt's Sinai last month, after he was informed by the country's security chief that it was a "terror act."



Mr Putin has also offered a 33 million pounds (around 330 crores) reward for the capture of the people responsible for the crash of the Airbus A321M on October 31.



"We will search for them anywhere they might hide. We will find them in any part of the world and punish them," Mr Putin told Alexander Bortnikov, Russia's security chief, late on Monday. The Kremlin released the remarks on Tuesday.



The Russian President called the attack on Metrojet Flight 9268 which exploded shortly after the Airbus A321 took off from the resort city of Sharm al-Sheikh, "one of the bloodiest crimes".



"One can say unambiguously that it was a terror act," Mr Bortnikov told Mr Putin. He cited experts to say that the plane disintegrated midair due to a bomb with the equivalent of a kilo of TNT.



The Airbus A321M had crashed shortly after taking off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on its way to the Russian city of St Petersburg, killing all 224 people on board.



The terror group ISIS, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria and is battling the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula, had claimed that it brought down the air plane.