Security and Crime

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  • Fire at Cairo church contained; no casualties

    Date: 2019-10-13 22:57:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:87 - ID:8143727

    CAIRO, Oct 13 (MENA) – The civil defense forces contained a huge blaze broke out earlier on Sunday at St. George the Great Martyr Orthodox Church in Helwan, southern Cairo, a source said. Bolis Halim, the Coptic Orthodox Church spokesman, said ....

  • Fire breaks out at Cairo church

    Date: 2019-10-13 22:24:23 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:84 - ID:8143714

    CAIRO, Oct 13 (MENA) - A huge blaze broke out Sunday at St. George the Great Martyr Orthodox Church in Helwan, southern Cairo. Bolis Halim, the Coptic Orthodox Church spokesman, said the fire caused material damage to the church's building, but ....

  • 4 suspects referred to criminal trial over killing Menofia teenager

    Date: 2019-10-12 21:41:22 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:47 - ID:8142276

    CAIRO, Oct 12 (MENA) - Prosecutor General Hamada El Sawy on Saturday referred four suspects of murdering a teenager last Wednesday in Menofia governorate, Egypt's Delta to a criminal trial. According to initial investigations, Mohamed Ashraf ....

  • Security forces foil attempted attack against security checkpoint in Arish

    Date: 2019-10-10 19:22:21 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:88 - ID:8139863

    CAIRO, Oct 10 (MENA) - Security forces on Thursday thwarted an attempted attack at a checkpoint in Arish City in North Sinai. The security forces killed a suicide bomber, who was wearing an explosive belt, before he could detonate his ....

  • Over 5 thousand traffic violations recorded over past 24 hours

    Date: 2019-10-09 11:04:23 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:31 - ID:8137224

    CAIRO, Oct 9 (MENA) - The Ministry of Interior's traffic directorate recorded 5,187 traffic violations over the past 24 hours, including 2,090 breaches of speed limits. Campaigns conducted during the same period also resulted in arresting 17 ....

  • Man arrested over attempted assault of nursing staff at Alexandria hospital

    Date: 2019-10-06 18:33:25 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:33 - ID:8133567

    CAIRO, Oct 6 (MENA) - A man was arrested Sunday over an attempt to assault the nursing staff at a hospital in Alexandria governorate. A video has gone viral on social networking websites, showing a man carrying an iron stick while quarreling with ....

  • Security source denies reports of attacking checkpoint in North Sinai's Arish

    Date: 2019-10-04 14:51:10 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:34 - ID:8131072

    CAIRO, Oct 4 (MENA) - A security source on Friday denied reports that Al Safa checkpoint in Arish city of North Sinai came under attack and left a number of policemen dead. The source denounced as baseless those reports circulated on Facebook ....

  • Ex-FM: Cairo-hosted forum aims at setting up unified strategy to fight terrorism

    Date: 2019-10-01 14:28:02 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:43 - ID:8126210

    CAIRO, Oct 1 (MENA) - Former foreign minister Mohamed Orabi said that the third edition of a forum on terrorism and regional interference and their impact on Arab and African security aims at setting up a unified strategy to fight ....

  • Third edition of terror combat forum kicks off

    Date: 2019-10-01 09:18:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:12 - ID:8126084

    CAIRO, Oct 1 (MENA) - The third edition of combating terrorism and regional interference kicked off here on Tuesday under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture. The forum is chaired by Egypt's former foreign minister Ambassador Mohamed Al Orabi. ....

  • About 4,000 traffic fines recorded in past 24 hours

    Date: 2019-09-30 14:01:36 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:51 - ID:8125245

    CAIRO, Sept 30 (MENA) - Police launched a wide-scale security campaign in the past 24 hours to maintain discipline on Egypt's streets. A total of 3,984 traffic violation fines were recorded nationwide. All legal measures were taken against the ....

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