In the images, the men both appeared to have been shot to death. The group also published a picture of plane debris with images of passports superimposed on top, which are said to have belonged to the “dead crusaders”.
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Islamic State’s official magazine prints photo of what it says was the bomb that brought down the Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
In the wake of last week’s Islamic State attack on Paris, Britain has ramped up its security and police have been given clearance to “shoot-to-kill” any gunmen who present a threat to the public.
The bomb which blew up a Russian Airbus over Egypt was “smuggled” onboard after Isis militants discovered a way to compromise the security at Sharm el-Sheikh airport, the group has claimed.
Ordering the country’s secret service to hunt down those responsible for blowing up the plane, he said the effort to bring them to justice should be exhaustive.
“While the Egyptian-led investigation has not officially concluded, we assess it is likely that this was an ISIL terrorist attack”, a White House official said in a statement.
“The use of a soda can raised questions about whether the device was included in the catering supply”, Clive Williams, a professor at the Australian National University’s Centre for Military and Security Law and a member of the global Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, said.
They believed the device probably exploded inside the passenger cabin, possibly directly beneath a passenger’s seat next to a window towards the rear of the fuselage and triggered by a timer set for one hour.
In a harrowing reconstruction video published online, the MetroJet plane is shown travelling through the air before the tail end is suddenly blown off.
All 224 people on board were killed.
The Islamic State on Wednesday released the image of a juice can which led to the downfall of the Russian plane in Egypt on October 31.
It said the attacks were in retaliation of the French air strikes in Syria which began a year ago. All passengers and crew were evacuated, but no explosives have been found aboard, a spokeswoman for the Burgas airport told Reuters, adding that the airport remains closed.
Authorities have yet to confirm whether the Islamic State’s soda can explosive is what actually brought down the airliner.
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The Norwegian foreign ministry declined to comment on the claim.
