Egypt and Russia deny that a bomb downed Metrojet plane

Egypt and Russia on Thursday dismissed concerns expressed by U.S. and British officials that the Metrojet plane crash that killed 224 people in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula may have been caused by a bomb planted by ISIS.

"The investigation team does not have any evidence or data confirming this hypothesis," Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kamal said in a statement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov called the information "unverified" and said the West was pushing it because of "geopolitical resistance to Russia's actions in Syria."

U.S. investigators are still reviewing the evidence, but one anonymous official told CNN on Wednesday that "the analysis is pointing toward the cause being a bomb," a concern echoed by the British government.

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