Russian plane crash: Bodies without limbs found as search extends

Shadows of death: The front part of a Metrojet plane that crashed in Egypt.

El-Hassna  (Egypt): As International investigators on Sunday began probing why the Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed, they reveal some of the pathetic details at the site of mishap. 

They found bodies were scattered over an area of six to eight square kilometres, around 100 kilometres south of the town of El-Arish. An Egyptian officer said the search perimeter would be widened to 15 kilometres.

“We found a three-year-old girl eight kilometres from the scene” of the main wreckage, he said. Many of the bodies were missing limbs, said the officer, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media.

The Islamic State affiliate waging an insurgency in the Sinai claimed it brought down the plane in revenge for Russian air strikes against the group in Syria.