Second Emergencies Ministry plane carrying remains of victims of Sinai tragedy to fly from Cairo tonight

The second aircraft of the Russian Emergencies Ministry carrying the remains of those who died in the Russian Airbus A321 aircraft crash will depart from Cairo to St.Petersburg on Monday evening, the Director of the Emergencies Ministry’s Department of Aviation and Rescue Technologies, Vladimir Svetelsky, said.

"At 20:00 local time (21:00 MSK) the second plane with the remains of the victims will depart from Cairo," TASS cited him as saying.

The first aircraft carrying the bodies of 144 people landed in St. Petersburg this morning.