Russia's security chief says plane over Sinai downed in 'terror act'

He said the plane disintegrated in midair due to a bomb, equivalent of a kilo of TNT

Moscow

: Russia's security chief told President Vladimir Putin that a plane carrying 224 people over Sinai was downed due to a \"terror attack,\" the Kremlin said on Tuesday.

\"One can say unambiguously that it was a terror act,\" the head of the FSB security agency, Alexander Bortnikov, told Putin in a meeting the day before. Citing experts, he said the plane disintegrated in midair due to a bomb with the equivalent of a kilo of TNT.