Security and Crime
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Security forces seize over 400 firearms nationwide
Date: 2018-10-15 16:02:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:87 - ID:7622993
CAIRO, Oct 15 (MENA) - Security forces seized 211 firearms and 232 cold weapons nationwide over the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said Monday. The troops also registered 340 drug cases and implemented a number of court rulings. This ....
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Interior Ministry: 9 terrorists killed in fire exchange with police on Assiut-Sohag road
Date: 2018-10-15 11:23:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:39 - ID:7622293
CAIRO, Oct 15 (MENA) - Nine terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire with police troops on Assiut-Sohag desert road, the Interior Ministry announced Monday. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the National Security Sector received ....
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Interior Ministry sets up plan to confront smuggling, organized crime - official
Date: 2018-10-09 13:57:28 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:72 - ID:7613685
CAIRO, Oct 9 (MENA) - Assistant Interior Minister Mahmoud Abboudi said all the ministry's bodies have drawn up a plan to combat smuggling and arms trade crimes. The ministry spares no effort in facing them, he said. Addressing the first ....
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Firefighters contain new blaze in New Valley
Date: 2018-10-07 20:24:06 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:41 - ID:7610908
KHARGA, Egypt, Oct 7 (MENA) - Firefighters in the New Valley governorate on Sunday contained a blaze, flared up in an agriculture area in Dakhla's El Maasara village. New Valley security chief Mohamed Kamal was informed about the blaze, as ....
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Senior official in Awqaf arrested over fraud charges
Date: 2018-10-07 19:29:25 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:36 - ID:7610798
QENA, Upper Egypt, Oct 7 (MENA) – Director of the Awqaf Ministry’s financial affairs in Qena was arrested on Sunday over suspicions of fraud charges. The suspect is facing charges of embezzlement and squandering public funds worth EGP 1.6 ....
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3,682 prisoners pardoned on October War anniversary -- ministry
Date: 2018-10-06 15:51:38 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:54 - ID:7609456
CAIRO, Oct 6 (MENA) - As many as 3,682 prisoners have been pardoned on the anniversary of the October War, said the department of jails of the Interior Ministry on Saturday. The number included 896 indebted people as part of President Abdel ....
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2 tons of Bango seized in Ismailia
Date: 2018-10-05 20:37:40 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:62 - ID:7608301
CAIRO, Oct 5 (MENA) - Security forces on Friday seized a truck laden with around two tons of Bango, the Egyptian street-term for cannabis, in Ismailia governorate. Two drug traffickers were arrested with search is underway for a fugitive. The ....
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Security forces seize firearms, arrest wanted criminals in Giza
Date: 2018-10-03 16:12:56 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:87 - ID:7605089
CAIRO, Oct 3 (MENA) - Security forces seized on Wednesday nine firearms and arrested 16 wanted criminals during security campaigns in Giza's Kerdasa village. The troops also implemented 37 court rulings and arrested 56 people on charges of ....
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15 terrorists killed by security forces in Arish
Date: 2018-10-03 12:17:50 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:51 - ID:7604669
CAIRO, Oct 3 (MENA) - Fifteen terrorists were killed in a shootout with security forces in Arish, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. Security forces received a tip-off that some militants are planning to carry out terrorist attacks during ....
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3 arrested over illegally possessing Pharaonic artifacts
Date: 2018-10-01 16:20:39 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:77 - ID:7601617
CAIRO, Oct 1 (MENA) - Security forces in Cairo arrested on Monday two people with 70 artifacts in their possession. The police received information that a jeweler and his son were intending to illicitly sell the Pharaonic antiquities. The ....