PHOTO: Bomb ISIS Claims Brought Down Russian Plane Flight 9268

A new photo released by the Islamic State in an English language version of their magazine Dabiq shows the alleged soda can IED bomb that allegedly brought down Metrojet Flight 7K9268 over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

In the article featuring the photo, ISIS claims that “a bomb was smuggled onto the airplane” and that it “was to show the Russians and whoever allies with them that they will have no safety in the lands and airspace of the Muslims, that their daily killing of dozens in Sham through their air strikes will only bring them calamities, and that just as they kill, they will be killed, by Allah’s permission.”
The photo alleges to show the improvised explosive device that brought the airliner down. The IED appears to be a Schweppes Gold pineapple can with various incendiary components. It has yet to be confirmed.

Metrojet Flight 7K9268 was traveling from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to St. Petersburg, Russia, on October 31 when it crashed in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people onboard, including 217 passengers, 17 of them children aged between 2 and 17, were killed.