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Russia Mourns 224 Victims on Egypt's Sinai Crash:Flags were at Half Mast

The Standard of the President of Russian Federation flies at half-mast over the Kremlin in Moscow.

Russia holds a day of mourning as Egyptian rescue teams scour the crash site to recover victims' bodies on Sunday mourned its biggest ever air disaster after a passenger jet full of Russian tourists crashed in Egypt's Sinai, killing all 224 people on board. 

Flags were at half mast on the parliament building, in the Kremlin, and on other official buildings in honor of the victims, most of whom were from Russia's second-largest city of Saint Petersburg.

Meanwhile, Egyptian rescue teams were looking Sunday for more victims of a Russian passenger plane crash in Sinai, widening the search after finding bodies scattered for kilometres a day after the incident.
A military officer helping with the search told AFP that rescuers had found 163 bodies out of a total of 224 people who were on board the Airbus 321, which crashed after taking off from a Red Sea beach resort.
The plane was carrying 214 Russian and three Ukrainian passengers, along with seven crew members.