Families receive news of no survivors at St. Petersburg airport.
They were all killed, thanks be to God," said a statement from the Sinai affiliate of ISIS after a Metrojet Airbus 321, carrying 217 Russian tourists and 7 crew from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashed in central Sinai early Saturday morning, Oct. 31.
President Vladimir Putin declared Sunday a national day of mourning after sending messages of sympathy to their families.
Russia's Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov strongly denied as "inaccurate" what he called "assorted information that the Russian passenger plane was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile fired by terrorists."
A Russian civilian plane with 217 passengers and 7 crew aboard crashed, and is belived shot down by a missile, over Sinai over Sinai early Saturday morning, Oct. 31, shortly after taking off from the Sinai resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh for St. Petersburg.
