London - The United States and
Britain said a bomb may have put down a Russian airliner which crashed in
Egypt, as the Islamic State group claimed it caused the disaster.
Britain
and Ireland postponed flights to and from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm
el-Sheikh, where the plane took off on Saturday bound for Saint Petersburg
before crashing minutes later, killing all 224 people on board.
"A
bomb is a highly possible scenario," a US official told. "It would be
something that ISIL would want to do," he added, using an alternate name
for the Islamic State (IS) group.
British
Prime Minister David Cameron s office said that "as more information
has come to light, we have become concerned that the plane may well have been
brought down by an explosive device".
The
move comes as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to hold talks with
Cameron in London on Thursday, during his first visit to Britain since he led
the army rebellion of his ancestor Mohamed Morsi.
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