Obama says US taking seriously bomb as plane crash cause

Nina Lushchenko's nephew Pavel and daughter Veronika react at her grave, after her funeral at a cemetery in the village of Sitnya, 80 km (about 50 miles) of Veliky Novgorod, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. The first victim of Saturday's plane crash in Egypt was laid to rest on Thursday following a funeral service in a medieval church in the north Russian city of Veliky Novgorod. Russia's Airbus 321-200 broke up over the Sinai Peninsula en route from the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, killing all 224 on board. AP/Dmitry Lovetsky

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the U.S. is taking "very seriously" that possibility that a bomb caused a Russian plane to crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

Obama commented Thursday in an interview with a radio station based in Seattle, Washington.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest has said earlier in the day that the U.S. can't rule out the possibility of terrorism in the Metrojet crash that killed all 224 people onboard.

Earnest said the U.S. hadn't determined what caused the crash.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that he has grounded all British flights to and from the Sinai Peninsula because of "intelligence and information" that points to a bomb as the probable cause of Saturday's crash.

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