Security and Crime

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  • Policemen arrest 27 fugitives over past 24 hours

    Date: 2017-04-30 15:00:30 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:48 - ID:6791168

    CAIRO, April 30 (MENA) - Policemen arrested 27 fugitives and restored four stolen cars over the past 24 hours. Acting upon directives by Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, the troops found 132 drug cases and arrested 10 criminals on bribery ....

  • Military spokesman: New tunnel in northern Sinai discovered, damaged

    Date: 2017-04-29 12:23:26 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:39 - ID:6789622

    CAIRO, April 29 (MENA) - A new tunnel was discovered and destroyed on the borderline of North Sinai, the military spokesman said. As many as 226 persons of different nationalities were nabbed while attempting to infiltrate through the western and ....

  • ACA: Survey official arrested in Cairo over bribe

    Date: 2017-04-26 18:53:40 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:72 - ID:6786122

    CAIRO, April 26 (MENA) – Director of survey office in Cairo's Zeitoun district and a surveying specialist were arrested for taking a bribe from a citizen in return for finalizing measures on the cadastral survey of his residential building, the ....

  • Revenge behind policeman killing in Giza - source

    Date: 2017-04-26 09:53:41 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:25 - ID:6785067

    CAIRO, April 26 (MENA) - A well-placed security source said that revenge was the main motive behind the killing of a police sergeant in Giza's Faisal district early Wednesday. In statements to MENA, the source said two gunmen from a family at ....

  • Gunmen kill police officer in Giza - source

    Date: 2017-04-26 08:57:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:18 - ID:6784964

    CAIRO, April 26 (MENA) - A police sergeant was killed as a group of gunmen opened fire at him in Giza's Faisal district, a security source said. In statements to MENA on Wednesday, the source said Giza Security Chief Hisham Eraqi gave orders to ....

  • Interior minister meets members of American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt

    Date: 2017-04-24 19:15:04 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:88 - ID:6783125

    CAIRO, April 24 (MENA) – Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar met on Monday with members of the board of directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt ahead of their annual visit to the United States to introduce the promising investment ....

  • 3 killed in shooting in Qena

    Date: 2017-04-24 13:37:34 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:58 - ID:6782684

    QENA, April 24 (MENA) - Three people were killed and one was wounded in a shooting incident in Qena on Monday. Six persons implicated in the crime were arrested. A verbal clash occurred between a man and a 14-year-old boy working for him that ....

  • Court: Papers of 20 terrorists referred to Mufti over storming Kerdasa police station

    Date: 2017-04-24 12:06:41 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:44 - ID:6782292

    CAIRO, April 24 (MENA) - The Cairo Criminal Court on Monday referred the papers of 20 defendants to Egypt's Mufti to give his opinion over sentencing them to death in the case of storming Kerdasa police station and killing its chief, his deputy ....

  • ACA arrests agriculture directorate official over corruption charges

    Date: 2017-04-24 10:43:57 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:32 - ID:6782122

    CAIRO, April 24 (MENA) - The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) arrested on Monday an agriculture directorate employee in Dakahlia governorate over bribe-taking charges. The employee is accused of taking a 24,000-pound bribe from a person who ....

  • Attempt to smuggle more than 7 mln pieces of fireworks foiled

    Date: 2017-04-23 13:11:43 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:53 - ID:6780726

    CAIRO, April 23 (MENA) – Port Said customs foiled on Sunday an attempt to smuggle more than seven million pieces of banned fireworks into Egypt. A container containing 2,302 cartons filled with 7,320,528 pieces of fireworks coming from a foreign ....

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