Experts comb plane crash sites in search of clues

Russian officials are examining the wreckage of two crashed planes today in an effort to determine whether a terrorist attack caused the near-simultaneous disasters that killed all 89 people aboard.

Russian officials are examining the wreckage of two crashed planes today in an effort to determine whether a terrorist attack caused the near-simultaneous disasters that killed all 89 people aboard.

The planes plunged to earth just days before a Kremlin-called election in warring Chechnya, whose separatist rebels are blamed for a series of suicide bombings in recent years.

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