Egypt - Sinai: Russian Plane Had Bomb in Hold, Say U.K. Investigators - by Felicity Capon

A bomb was put in the hold of the Russian airliner that crashed last Saturday over the Sinai Peninsula killing everyone on board, U.K. investigators now believe.

The U.K. government says it has received new intelligence based on intercepted communications between militants in the Sinai Peninsula, according to the BBC. Investigators suspect that someone with access to the plane's baggage compartment managed to place an explosive device inside or on top of the luggage just before it took off.

The Russian Metrojet Airbus A321 was flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg when it came down in Sinai last weekend, killing all 224 people on board. Most of the victims were Russian.

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Air Disaster: Six bodies recovered from AirAsia crash

As search teams locate and remove bodies from AirAsia Flight 8501, investigators are trying to determine what caused the jetliner to crash in shallow Indonesian waters with 162 people aboard.

The jet vanished from radar in bad weather Sunday morning. After more than two days of searching, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency confirmed Tuesday that debris and bodies from the aircraft was found in the Karimata Strait, off the coast of Borneo.

Six bodies, three male and three female, have been recovered from the Java Sea Indonesia's Search and Rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said, including a woman wearing a flight attendant's uniform.
Three bodies were retrieved Tuesday, while the others were found after the search resumed Wednesday morning.

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