Security and Crime

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  • Security bodies seize 54 tons of wheat, flour before being sold on black market

    Date: 2017-07-22 13:02:53 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:52 - ID:6910107

    CAIRO, July 22 (MENA) – Security bodies seized 54 tons of wheat and flour before being sold on the black market. This comes as part of several campaigns to regulate the markets to prevent smuggling and combat commercial fraud at the directives of ....

  • 11 weapons seized, implementing more than 2,000 judicial ruling during security campaign in Qena

    Date: 2017-07-22 12:29:39 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:45 - ID:6909980

    CAIRO, July 22 (MENA) - Security bodies in Qena launched security campaigns resulted in seizing 11 weapons, arresting four fugitives and implementing 2,040 judicial ruling over the past 24 hours. The four fugitives were nabbed in two cases of ....

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

    Date: 2017-07-21 14:58:38 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:41 - ID:6908874

    CAIRO, July 21 (MENA) - Two terrorists from Hasm movement were killed in a firefight with security forces in Fayoum governorate, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Friday. The two Hasm members were involved in carrying out several ....

  • Maadi blast caused by gas leakage -- security source

    Date: 2017-07-21 11:00:22 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:25 - ID:6908658

    CAIRO, July 21 (MENA) - An official source with the Interior Ministry's press center said that the explosion that took place in Maadi earlier on Friday was caused by a gas leakage. In a released statement by the ministry, the source added that a ....

  • 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 ....

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