Security and Crime

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  • Interior Ministry seizes more than 230 tons of subsidized wheat before sold in black market

    Date: 2019-07-11 15:54:43 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:81 - ID:8020254

    CAIRO, July 11 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry seized more than 230 tons of subsidized wheat before being sold in black market. Investigations showed that the owners of a private-owned silo, in cooperation with several owners of bakeries, were ....

  • Attempt to smuggle 6,500 narcotic pills foiled at Damietta Port

    Date: 2019-07-11 15:48:05 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:80 - ID:8020247

    CAIRO, July 11 (MENA) - Security forces on Thursday thwarted an attempt by two criminals to smuggle around 6,500 narcotic pills to an Arab country via Damietta Port. The illegal drugs were hidden in wooden furniture. All legal measures have ....

  • Admin of “Sorry Mr. President” Facebook page remanded in custody on charges of publishing false news

    Date: 2019-07-10 23:14:02 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:85 - ID:8019130

    CAIRO, July 10 (MENA) - The higher state security prosecution’s first attorney general, Counsellor Khaled Diaa, ordered on Wednesday that Karim Hussein, the admin of the Facebook page titled “Asfeen ya Rayes” (Sorry Mr. President) be remanded in ....

  • 100 internet blackmailing, extortion cases reported by Interior Ministry

    Date: 2019-07-10 10:56:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:33 - ID:8017954

    CAIRO, July 10 (MENA) - ِCommunication and Information Technology Sector at the Ministry of Interior has reported as many as 100 blackmailing, extortion and cheating cases during exams via the internet within one week. A statement by the ....

  • 12 persons killed, injured in micro-bus accident on Beni Sweif road

    Date: 2019-07-10 10:48:39 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:31 - ID:8017947

    BENI SWEIF, Upper Egypt, July 10 (MENA) - Three persons were killed and nine more injured in a micro bus crash on Wednesday on the eastern desert road. A micro-bus overturned 20 kilometers ahead of the gate to Beni Sweif, said director of the ER ....

  • Cairo Airport police foil illegal migration attempt

    Date: 2019-07-10 10:28:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:29 - ID:8017961

    CAIRO, July 10 (MENA) - Cairo Airport police have foiled an illegal migration attempt of 11 persons to an Arab country. They alleged that they were members of a sports team that is taking part in a tournament in an Arab country and presented fake ....

  • Fire at plastic recycling factory in Shobra el Kheima extinguished

    Date: 2019-07-09 10:56:57 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:26 - ID:8016515

    BANHA, July 9 (MENA) - Civil protection forces in Qalubiya on Tuesday have successfully controlled a fire that broke out in a plastic recycling factory in Shobra El Kheima district. There were no reports on injuries or damage as a result of the ....

  • Interior minister meets Chinese security official

    Date: 2019-06-26 15:23:10 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:68 - ID:7997915

    CAIRO, June 26 (MENA) - Minister of Interior Mohamed Tawfiq has expressed his ministry's keenness on developing security performance and benefiting from the experience of friendly countries. In a meeting with the Chinese deputy security minister ....

  • 7 policemen, 4 terrorists killed in attack in Sinai

    Date: 2019-06-26 11:35:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:38 - ID:7997766

    CAIRO, June 26 (MENA) - An officer and six policemen were killed in an attack by terrorist elements in southwestern El Arish, North Sinai, on Wednesday. Four of the terrorists were killed as policemen confronted the attack on a police outpost in ....

  • Police record more than 5,000 traffic violations nationwide

    Date: 2019-06-25 16:21:17 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:65 - ID:7996386

    CAIRO, June 25 (MENA) - Security forces have recorded 5,184 traffic violations and arrested 17 drunk drivers during campaigns launched nationwide over the past 24 hours. The security campaigns were launched in line with the Ministry of Interior's ....

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