Security and Crime

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  • 11 terrorists killed in shootout with police in Arish

    Date: 2018-09-10 08:01:20 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:10 - ID:7569857

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) - Eleven terrorists have been killed in a shootout with police troops in Arish. The terrorists had planned to carry out attacks against the troops and were hiding at a disused gas station in Gesr el Wadi district of Arish. ....

  • Man arrested in Alex. over possessing 2.2 mln tablets of drugs of unknown origin

    Date: 2018-09-09 17:10:53 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:73 - ID:7569371

    CAIRO, Sept 9 (MENA) – Supply and home trade police arrested on Sunday an owner of a store in Alexandria over possessing 2.2 million packets and tablets of medicine, food supplements and ecstasy of unknown origin. The drugs are not licensed by ....

  • Over 4 tons of spoiled food seized in Qalubiya

    Date: 2018-09-08 19:59:20 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:49 - ID:7568001

    CAIRO, Sept 8 (MENA) – Supply and home trade police arrested an owner of a factory for food production in Qalubiya governorate after seizing 4.3 tons and 16,000 packages of raw materials of unknown origin and not suitable for human consumption in ....

  • Banning trucks from travelling on Cairo's ring road starts Sept. 15 - Interior Ministry

    Date: 2018-09-06 18:51:15 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:79 - ID:7565620

    CAIRO, Sept 6 (MENA) – Interior Ministry will start on September 15 implementing the cabinet’s decision to ban the more than four-ton trucks from travelling on the ring road and inside Greater Cairo from 6 a.m. until 12 a.m. The minister urged ....

  • Fugitive criminal wanted for killing policeman arrested in Aswan

    Date: 2018-09-06 15:45:59 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:63 - ID:7565417

    GIZA, Sept 6 (MENA) – Criminal investigation authorities seized a fugitive criminal wanted for executing a life sentence for killing a policeman and injuring another in Aswan governorate. The criminal, who was tried in absentia, was also wanted ....

  • 14 valuable pieces seized ahead of being smuggled into Egypt

    Date: 2018-09-05 12:05:15 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:32 - ID:7563153

    CAIRO, Sept 5 (MENA) - Fourteen pieces of art of historical and archaeological value were seized upon arrival at Damietta port from a foreign state. Damietta police acted on a tip that a 52-year-old woman is scheduled to receive a personal ....

  • Interior Ministry: 543 inmates pardoned, released on parole nationwide

    Date: 2018-09-05 11:21:17 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:30 - ID:7563155

    CAIRO, Sept 5 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry's Prisons Sector said on Wednesday that 156 inmates will be pardoned while 387 others will be released on parole on the occasion of Eidul Adha (Greater Bairam). In a statement, the ministry said that ....

  • Police thwart attack with inflammable materials in downtown Cairo

    Date: 2018-09-04 14:10:14 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:70 - ID:7561912

    CAIRO, Sept 4 (MENA) – Security forces arrested a man on Tuesday as fire started burning at a backpack he was carrying in downtown Cairo, a security source said. Abdullah Ayman Abdel Samei’, 24, was holding a bag containing a plastic bottle ....

  • 4 dangerous criminals killed in shoot-out on Ain Shokhna road

    Date: 2018-09-04 12:21:52 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:52 - ID:7561675

    CAIRO, Sept 4 (MENA) - Four dangerous criminal elements were killed in a shoot-out with security forces on the Ain Sokhna road on Tuesday. Security forces targeted a gang of masked thieves who opened fire on a man driving his private car on 90 ....

  • 6 injured in Cairo Metro train carriage derailment

    Date: 2018-09-03 21:47:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:97 - ID:7560768

    CAIRO, Sept 3 (MENA) - Six persons were injured when a Metro carriage derailed and collided with five cars in Cairo's suburb of Heliopolis Monday, a statement by the governorate read. Four injured were discharged from hospitals after receiving ....

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