
The Ministry of Defense of Egypt announced the death of Abu Dua al-Ansari, the leader of the Ansar Bayt al-Makdis group, which Washington and Moscow are considered responsible during the October attack on board the Russian Airbus A321. According to RBC, such information is published on the FB page of the department. The publication says that Abu Dua and about 45 militants were killed as a result of a airline.
Fox News reports that sources in American intelligence confirmed the death of Abu Dua.
As noted, "Ansar byte al -Makdis" is the former name of the group. After her oath to the Islamic State, she took the name “Vilayat Sinai”.
The plane of Kogalymavia, flying from Sharm-Esh-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashed in the morning on October 31, 2015 near the Airport of the city of El-Arish on the Sinai Peninsula. There were 217 passengers on board, of which 24 children, and seven crew members. All of them died. This is the largest disaster in the history of Russian and Soviet civil aviation. Among the dead were four citizens of Ukraine and one - Belarus. The rest of the passengers and crew members were Russians.
A few days later, assumptions about the attack were made. On November 4, representatives of the American and British intelligence services stated that the crash of the liner could be caused by an explosion of a bomb on board.
On November 6, Vladimir Putin ordered to suspend Russian aviation flights to Egypt until the reasons for the A321 disaster are clarified. On November 16, at a meeting of Putin , the cause of the crash was called a terrorist attack .
On February 24, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recognized the A321 Disaster by the attack . The goal of the terrorists of As-Sisi named the blow to the tourism industry of Egypt and the relationship of Cairo and Moscow. This was the first official confirmation of the version of the attack of the Egyptian authorities.