Security and Crime

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  • Car plunges into Nile river in Qena, 6 dead

    Date: 2017-03-06 07:16:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:11 - ID:6639409

    QENA, March 6 (MENA) - Six people, including three children of the same family, died when their taxi plunged into Nile River. The accident took place late on Sunday when the taxi was being ferried from Naqada to Qous townships in Qena. The taxi ....

  • 2 dangerous drug traffickers killed in shootout with police

    Date: 2017-03-06 06:35:05 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:7 - ID:6639281

    CAIRO, March 6 (MENA) - Two dangerous drug traffickers were killed in a shootout with police forces in Badr area in Cairo, according to the Interior Ministry on Monday. Acting upon a tip-off, police cracked down on some criminal elements taking ....

  • 32 killed, injured in Alexandria-Matrouh road accident

    Date: 2017-03-05 22:22:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:97 - ID:6638853

    MARSA MATROUH, Egypt, March 5 (MENA) - Six people were killed and 26 others injured in a road accident earlier Sunday on Alexandria-Matrouh coastal road. Matrouh Governor Alaa Abu Zeid arrived at the accident scene to check on the injured. The ....

  • SCA medical team to serve Arish families in Ismailia

    Date: 2017-03-05 20:55:03 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:91 - ID:6637993

    ISMAILIA, March 5 (MENA) - Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Sunday sent a medical team to check on the health conditions of 40 Christian families who moved from Arish to Ismailia. A statement by SCA said the team gathers 40 doctors who cover nine ....

  • Port Said receives 28 Coptic families

    Date: 2017-03-05 18:38:21 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:82 - ID:6637949

    PORT SAID, March 5 (MENA) - Twenty-eight Coptic families have fled Arish for Port Said, according to the spokesman for the Church in the Canal city. Bishop Armia Fahmy said Sunday the families include 93 members, of whom 45 have been resettled ....

  • Sisi orders continued efforts in face of terror

    Date: 2017-03-05 17:32:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:79 - ID:6637633

    CAIRO, March 5 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held on Sunday a meeting with a number of senior security officials, topped by Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar. During his visit to the Interior Ministry's National Security Sector, ....

  • ACA arrests Heliopolis borough official for receiving bribe

    Date: 2017-03-05 14:49:06 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:59 - ID:6636253

    CAIRO, March 5 (MENA) - The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) has detected an assistant to the head of Heliopolis borough for receiving a bribe of 10,000 pounds from a lawyer of a company that owns a chain of restaurants. The official ....

  • Wanted person arrested over impersonating prosecutor

    Date: 2017-03-04 15:19:47 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:49 - ID:6630437

    CAIRO, March 4 (MENA) - A wanted person was arrested over impersonating a prosecutor and defrauding those who want to work abroad and grabbing their money. The 33-year-old-defendant had been accused of 13 cases, and wanted for putting a ....

  • Interior Ministry: 4 terrorists killed in Giza's Kerdasa, weapons seized

    Date: 2017-03-03 15:16:29 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:57 - ID:6625629

    CAIRO, March 3 (MENA) – Four terrorists were killed on Friday in a fire exchange with police in Kerdasa, Giza, the interior ministry said in a statement. This came as part of the interior ministry's efforts to abort terrorists' attempts to ....

  • Antiquities committee confiscate 17 artifacts seized by Damietta Customs

    Date: 2017-03-01 22:48:33 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:86 - ID:6615941

    CAIRO, March 1 (MENA) – The supreme committee of antiquities has decided to confiscate around 17 artifacts were found by Damietta Customs Office before being smuggled to Iraq. The pieces were hidden in about 319 parcels inside a container which ....

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