Security and Crime

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  • Interior ministry launches campaign to curb road accidents

    Date: 2017-02-26 15:52:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:79 - ID:6592181

    CAIRO, Feb 26 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry launched on Sunday a campaign to raise awareness among citizens about the risks of road accidents. The campaign dubbed "Take Care!" is aimed to reducing the number of accidents on Egypt's roads, the ....

  • Senior TE Data official referred to court on graft charges

    Date: 2017-02-26 13:21:37 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:47 - ID:6591037

    CAIRO, Feb 26 (MENA) - A senior TE Data official has been referred to criminal court for allegedly amassing a fortune worth 60 million pounds through illegal means. A probe revealed that Mohamed Samir, a security supervisor of the information ....

  • 300-meter safety zones to surround Alex. vital facilities: Interior min.

    Date: 2017-02-26 11:15:46 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:30 - ID:6589841

    CAIRO, Feb 26 (MENA) - Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar issued directives on Sunday to establish a safety zone stretching over 300 meters around the surroundings of vital state facilities in Alexandria governorate. Under the directives, ....

  • Security authorities did not urge Copts to leave their houses in North Sinai -- Official

    Date: 2017-02-25 20:44:41 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:74 - ID:6587537

    CAIRO, Feb 25 (MENA) – Security authorities did not urge Coptic citizens living in North Sinai to leave their houses and move to the neighboring governorates, security source said on Saturday. He added that army and police forces are working on ....

  • Fugitive escaped from prison during Jan. 25th Revolution nabbed

    Date: 2017-02-25 13:38:10 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:53 - ID:6585733

    ALEXANDRIA, Feb 25 (MENA) - Security bodies here arrested a fugitive who escaped from Abu Zabel Prison during the January 25th Revolution. He was sentenced to three years in jail for dealing in drugs. All legal measures were taken in the ....

  • Security bodies seize one ton of marijuana, nab 3 gangs over past 24 hours

    Date: 2017-02-25 13:19:15 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:51 - ID:6585489

    CAIRO, Feb 25 (MENA) - Security bodies at the Interior Ministry launched an expanded campaign to arrest outlaws and maintain security as well as stability on the Egyptian street. The campaign, which was carried out according to directives by ....

  • 3 killed, wounded in car crash in Suez

    Date: 2017-02-25 09:30:00 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:19 - ID:6583993

    SUEZ CITY, Egypt, Feb 25 (MENA) - At least one person was killed and two more were injured in a car crash on a road leading to the Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel in Suez Saturday. A truck overturned on the road earlier in the day, a report received by Suez ....

  • Attempt to smuggle foreign currency abroad foiled

    Date: 2017-02-24 14:51:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:51 - ID:6581025

    CAIRO, Feb 24 (MENA) – An attempt to smuggle an amount of foreign currency was thwarted at Sharm el Sheikh Airport on Friday. The amount, worth 47,000 dollars, was seized with a Bulgarian passenger heading to Turkey, after the customs officials ....

  • Worker arrested over having unlicensed arms workshop in Qena

    Date: 2017-02-24 05:48:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:2 - ID:6578761

    QENA, Upper Egypt, Feb 24 (MENA) – A worker was arrested over having a workshop for manufacturing unlicensed weapons in Qena. Qena Security chief Salah Eddin Hassan received a tip that the worker turned his house into a workshop for manufacturing ....

  • Worker injured in explosion of oxygen cylinder in Cairo

    Date: 2017-02-23 16:24:42 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:65 - ID:6577113

    CAIRO, Feb 23 (MENA) – An oxygen cylinder exploded on Thursday in Cairo's Bulaq Abu el Ela district, injuring a welder. The explosion caused a huge noise, pushing the sappers and civil defense squads to rush to the scene of the incident, Interior ....

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