Russian families have begun the process of identifying the bodies of victims of Saturday’s crash of a Russian jetliner in Egypt.
The Associated Press said the first 10 bodies have been identified.
A spokesman for Russia’s emergency situations ministry told AP that a total of 140 bodies, and more than 100 body parts, were flown to St. Petersburg on two government planes Monday and Tuesday.
All 224 passengers and crew aboard a Metrojet Airbus A-321 were killed when the plane went down over the Sinai Peninsula about 20 minutes after takeoff from the airport at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on …read more
Source: Voice of America
