DHAKA: None of the 224 passengers and crew on board a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula have survived.

Egyptian medical and security sources said, reports Al Jazeera.

Search and rescue team members are still gathering the remains of victims after the crash on Saturday, the sources said.

A statement Egypt’s civil aviation ministry said the wreckage of the Russian passenger jet was found in the Hassana area, south of the city of el-Arish.

It said the plane took off from Sinai Peninsula’s Sharm el-Sheikh, a popular destination for Russian tourists, and disappeared from radar screens 23 minutes after take-off.

Among the passengers were 214 Russians and three Ukrainians, plus seven crew members, the Egyptian government said.

It added in a breakdown that they were 138 women, 62 men and 17 children. No survivors have been found, said one official.

Many bodies, including those of 17 children, had already been found, said Mahmoud al-Zanati, head of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority.

‘The search operation is still going on at the site of the accident. The wreckage is spread across a vast area,’ he added, according to state-run newspaper al-Ahram.

BDST: 2022 HRS, OCT 31, 2015
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