Sharm El Sheikh

According to Russian officials, the cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia airplane in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on October 31 was a terrorist attack.

The Airbus A321 was conducting flight 9268 between the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and Saint Petersburg when it crashed in North Sinai shortly after take-off.

Egypt stands to lose 2.2 billion Egyptian pounds ($280 million) a month from Britain and Russia's decision to suspend flights after the Russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou said on Nov. 11. 

Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team told Reuters Nov. 8, as countries increased their efforts to get their stranded citizens out of Egypt.

About 11,000 Russian tourists have been evacuated from Egypt over the past 24 hours in the aftermath of the deadly Russian plane crash, according to official data, TASS reported on Sunday.

"Today, the number will be even higher," the Russian news agency quoted  Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich as saying.

Egypt criticized its foreign partners on Nov. 7 for ignoring calls to work harder to combat terrorism, after Western intelligence sources said there were signs Islamist militants may have bombed the Russian plane which crashed in Sinai. 

A new revelation about a missile targeting a British passenger plane of Thomson Airways occurred above Sharm El Sheikh airport comes a few days after the Russian plane crashed at Sinai Peninsula shortly after taking off and amid claims that this was a terrorist attack.

The Foreign Ministry advised on Friday Bulgarians to refrain from travelling to the Egyptian resorts located on the Sinai peninsula (Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab, Nuweiba and others) until the investigation of the crashed Russian airplane has come out with a definitive conclusion on the likely causes of the incident.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to suspend all commercial flights to Egypt until an investigation determines the causes of the deadly Russian A321 plane crash, TASS reported on Friday.

Security concerns have been raised at Sharm el-Sheikh airport after a British tourist said he was offered the chance to pay 30 pounds to skip queues and baggage checks, as Independent reports.

Dale Parkyn visited the Egyptian resort with his wife earlier this year and told Sky News that a man in military uniform approached them and asked if they wanted to avoid the long queues.

Evidence now suggests that a bomb planted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group is the likely cause of last weekend's crash of a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai peninsula, U.S. and European security sources said on Nov 4.