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Egypt plane crash investigators '90% sure' it was a bomb

Egypt plane crash investigators "90% sure" the explosion heard on the black box recording of the Russian flight was a bomb, a member of the investigation team told Reuters.

A memorial service for the 224 victims of the crash was be held in St Petersburg today.

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Egypt foreign minister: Intelligence has not been shared

File photo of Mr Shoukry Credit: Reuters

Intelligence has not been shared with Cairo about the crash of a Russian passenger plane last week, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said.

He added that foreign countries did not heed Egypt's calls for greater coordination to fight terrorism.

The information we have heard about has not been shared with Egyptian security agencies in detail.

We were expecting that the technical information would be provided to us.

– Mr Shoukry

He added: "The spread of terrorism, which we have for a long time called on our partners to tackle more seriously, did not get through to many of the parties which are now exposed and which are currently working for the interests of their citizens to face this danger."

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