Sharm el-Sheikh hotel staff questioned in airliner crash probe

Egyptian police were questioning employees of Sharm el-Sheikh hotels as they investigated whether a bomb may have been planted in the luggage of unsuspecting holidaymakers who boarded the doomed Metrojet flight.

Workers, including cleaners, were being closely looked at as they had access to passengers’ hotel rooms, as police tried to establish how a bomb could have ended up in the aircraft’s luggage hold.

Thousands of Russians holidaymakers were heading home from Egypt aboard special planes sent by Moscow, which has suspended all flights to Egypt amid security concerns in the aftermath of the October 31 plane crash of the Russian airliner that killed all 224 people on board.