Families receive news of no survivors at St. Petersburg airport.<br />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.<br />President Vladimir Putin declared Sunday a national day of mourning after sending messages of sympathy to their families.<br />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."<br />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.
