The Latest: 9 bodies of Egypt plane crash victims identified in Russia's St. Petersburg

In this Russian Emergency Situations Ministry photo, made available on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, Russian Emergency Ministry experts work at the crash site of a Russian passenger plane bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. A Russian cargo plane on Monday brought the first bodies of Russian victims home to St. Petersburg, from Egypt.(Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations photo via AP) (The Associated Press)

Young women grieve at an entrance of Pulkovo airport outside St.Petersburg, Russia, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. In a massive outpouring of grief, thousands of people flocked to St. Petersburg's airport, laying flowers, soft toys and paper planes next to the pictures of the victims of the crash of a passenger jet in Egypt that killed all 224 on board in Russia's deadliest air crash to date.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) (The Associated Press)

MOSCOW – The latest developments after a Saturday's crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. (all times local).

10:25 a.m.

A deputy governor of St. Petersburg says the first nine bodies of the victims of Saturday's plane crash over Egypt have been identified.

Russian news agencies on Tuesday quoted Igor Albin as saying that that the families of the victims identified the bodies.

The Russian jet, flying from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg crashed over the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing all 224 people onboard. Most of the passengers were from St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city.

Albin said the identification could take several weeks.