7 November 2015, 23:42 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The fourth flight carrying remains of victims killed in the Sinai plane crash has left Egypt for St.Petersburg, the Russian Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) said Sunday.
"An EMERCOM plane, carrying body parts of victims and personal belongings retrieved from the crash site, has left the Cairo airport for St. Petersburg," the Ministry press office told RIA Novosti.
On October 31, an Airbus A321 came down in the Sinai Peninsula while en route from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. All 224 people on board, including 25 children, were killed in what has become the deadliest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history.
Soon after the air tragedy, Moscow sent a group of EMERCOM planes with experts to coordinate the search-and-rescue operation at the crash site and look for the bodies of crash victims.
