#EgyptAir crash ‘likely to be a terrorist act’

A hostess talks on the phone next to the Egyptair's desk at the Charles de Gaule airport near Paris, France, 19 May 2016. Picture: EPA/ Etienne Laurent

A hostess talks on the phone next to the Egyptair's desk at the Charles de Gaule airport near Paris, France, 19 May 2016. Picture: EPA/ Etienne Laurent

Published May 19, 2016

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Moscow - The head of Russia's FSB security service Alexander Bortnikov said on Thursday that the crash of an EgyptAir jet en route from Paris to Cairo was “in all likelihood” caused by a terrorist act, the RIA news agency quoted him as saying.

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Bortnikov, who was speaking in Minsk, Belarus, called on Russia's European partners to work together to identify those behind the downing of the plane.

He did not say what evidence he had that the crash was terrorism-related.

Reuters

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