An Egyptian soldier stands on a road after ambulances, which carry the bodies of Russian victims of a Russian passenger airplane crash, left for Cabreet Army Airport, 150 km northeast of Cairo, Egypt, on Oct. 31, 2015. Egypt said 45 dead bodies have been transferred to a morgue in Cairo on Saturday evening. A Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed early Saturday in Sinai, Egypt, currently with no survivors reported now, while the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)
CAIRO, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian IS-affiliated terror group claimed responsibility for the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt's Sinai that took place earlier on Saturday and left no survivors, the group said in a statement on its Twitter account.
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