Security and Crime

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  • Fire in Maadi restaurant controlled -- security source

    Date: 2017-07-21 08:50:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:9 - ID:6908450

    CAIRO, July 21 (MENA) - Civil protection forces on Friday controlled a fire that broke out in a restaurant in Maadi district due to a butane gas cylinder explosion, said a security source on Friday. In statements to MENA, he added that no ....

  • Police beef up measures to arrest perpatrators of Fayyoum shooting: Ministry

    Date: 2017-07-20 22:36:16 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:75 - ID:6908287

    CAIRO, July 20 (MENA) – The Interior Ministry said in a statement Thursday that security forces were stepping up efforts to arrest attackers who killed a soldier and injured three others in a shooting on Fayyoum-Cairo highway. The attackers hid ....

  • Soldier killed, 3 injured in shooting on police vehicle in Fayyoum

    Date: 2017-07-20 22:29:40 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:74 - ID:6908282

    CAIRO, July 20 (MENA) – A solider was killed and three others wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire late Thursday on a police vehicle on a main road in Fayyoum, a security source said. The source told MENA that the injured soldiers were ....

  • SMART company directors referred to criminal court over graft charges

    Date: 2017-07-20 09:52:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:23 - ID:6906968

    CAIRO, July 20 (MENA) - The Illicit Gains Authority referred on Thursday the general directors of Smart Card Applications Company (SMART) Ahmed Makarem Mohamed Masoud and Hany Moustafa Ahmed Soliman to the criminal court for embezzling 60 million ....

  • Military spox: 40 tunnels destroyed in N.Sinai from Jan to June

    Date: 2017-07-19 14:08:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:57 - ID:6905955

    CAIRO, July 19 (MENA) – Border guards have detected and destroyed 40 tunnels along the border line in North Sinai from January till June, an army’s spokesman announced. Several infiltration and illegal immigration attempts by 3,000 persons of ....

  • Senior leader of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis killed in N. Sinai: Interior Ministry

    Date: 2017-07-18 19:34:12 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:73 - ID:6904732

    CAIRO, July 18 (MENA) - A senior leader of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis terrorist group was killed in a firefight with policemen in el Arish city, North Sinai. Ahmed Hassan, 32, was tasked with recruiting militants for the terrorist group, the Interior ....

  • Two Hasm militants killed in Cairo shoot-out with police

    Date: 2017-07-18 16:07:47 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:61 - ID:6904206

    CAIRO, July 18 (MENA) – Two terrorists from Hasm movement were killed in a firefight with security forces in Cairo, the Interior Ministry's security media official said Tuesday. The terrorists were involved in the murder of three policemen in a ....

  • Cairo police arrest robbers of Banque Misr exchange company

    Date: 2017-07-18 14:46:40 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:57 - ID:6904281

    CAIRO, July 18 (MENA) - Cairo police have arrested two persons implicated in an armed robbery of an exchange company affiliated with Banque Misr. Two unidentified persons had attacked the exchange company and stolen some 22,000 dollars, 440 ....

  • Four people killed, wounded in road accident

    Date: 2017-07-18 13:30:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:45 - ID:6904003

    CAIRO, July 18 (MENA) - Two persons were killed and two others wounded in a collision between two private cars at Salah Salem axis in Cairo . The accident snarled traffic on the road leading to Salah Salem street at the entrance of Tayran ....

  • Fire erupts at farm in Obour city

    Date: 2017-07-18 12:40:29 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:36 - ID:6903884

    BANHA, Egypt, July 18 (MENA) - A huge fire erupted at a farm in Obour city earlier Tuesday. Civil defense troops are acting to extinguish the flames. Qalyoubiya police chief Maj. Gen. Anwar Saeid said high temperature caused the blaze. (MENA) M ....

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