‘Airport security will need to be overhauled’

Airport security around the world will have to be overhauled if it is confirmed the Russian airliner crash in the Sinai was caused by an Islamic State bomb, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond has warned.

‘Airport security will need to be overhauled’

The investigation committee has yet to formally declare its findings, but Mr Hammond reaffirmed that the view of the British authorities is that it was “more likely than not” that the crash was the result of a terrorist bomb planted on the aircraft before it took off from Sharm el-Sheikh eight days ago.

And he said there would have to be a major re-think of airport security in countries where IS - also referred to as Isil of Isis - is active if it turned out that they were behind the attack.

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