Security and Crime

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  • 4 people arrested for illegal excavation for antiquities in Cairo

    Date: 2023-06-18 11:51:00 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:39 - ID:10215571

    CAIRO, June 18 (MENA) – Security bodies of Cairo Directorate arrested on Sunday four people over illegal excavation for antiquities. The arrested illegally dug and excavated inside a building in Cairo’s al-Darb al-Ahmar district with the aim of ....

  • Man arrested for selling drugs in Cairo

    Date: 2023-06-17 09:46:53 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:33 - ID:10213786

    CAIRO, June 17 (MENA) - Ministry of Interior's security bodies have uncovered the truth of a Facebook post regarding a man selling narcotics in Kobri el Qobba district, in Cairo governorate. The man has been arrested with quantities of narcotics, ....

  • Police officer, dangerous criminal killed in shootout in Assiut

    Date: 2023-06-08 14:28:36 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:46 - ID:10200266

    CAIRO, June 8 (MENA) – A police officer and a dangerous drug dealer were killed in an exchange of fire in Assiut governorate, Upper Egypt. This took place when security forces raided the hide-out of the wanted criminal who opened fire on them ....

  • 6 killed in Behira accident

    Date: 2023-06-02 16:47:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:48 - ID:10190426

    DAMANHUR, Egypt. June 2 (MENA) - Six people, including two children, were killed after a train collided with a three-wheeled motorized rickshaw (tuktuk) in Beheira governorate. The bodies were moved to a hospital, while the prosecution was ....

  • Attempt to smuggle drugs into Egypt foiled

    Date: 2023-05-31 18:47:53 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:90 - ID:10187626

    CAIRO, May 31 (MENA) – The Interior Ministry has successfully foiled an attempt to smuggle large quantities of drugs into Egypt. Acting on a tip-off, a police force in the Red Sea governorate surrounded two drug dealers in a mountainous area in ....

  • Man arrested for EGP 3 million money laundry scheme

    Date: 2023-05-31 10:44:42 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:36 - ID:10186561

    CAIRO, May 31 (MENA) - Security bodies of the Interior Ministry arrested Wednesday a man for abusing his position as an accountant in a company and transferring funds of the company to his bank account. The detainee, living in Cairo governorate ....

  • Prosecution opens probe into fire in gov’t service building

    Date: 2023-05-30 22:26:39 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:74 - ID:10185900

    CAIRO, May 30 (MENA) - The Public Prosecution has delegated a team of experts of the Department of Criminal Evidence Investigation to determine the cause of a fire that broke out in the government service building in Cairo's 15th of May city ....

  • 22 criminals arrested for possessing large quantities of drugs

    Date: 2023-05-30 12:40:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:36 - ID:10185057

    CAIRO, May 30 (MENA) - As many as 22 criminals were arrested from Cairo, Giza, Ismailia, Beheira, Alexandria, Qalubiya, Red Sea, Suez, Gharbiya, Sharqiya, Assiut, Beni Suef and Damietta for possessing large quantities of drugs. The criminals ....

  • Security source denies Brotherhood claims on intransigent measures against Arab tourists at airports

    Date: 2023-05-28 06:16:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:7 - ID:10181004

    CAIRO, May 28 (MENA) - A security source denied claims purported by some Brotherhood pages on adopting intransigent measures against Arab tourists in some airports. Security source stressed that these claims are bare of truth and represent ....

  • Security source denies reports on kidnapping of African asylum-seeker in Cairo

    Date: 2023-05-24 08:19:26 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:15 - ID:10174837

    CAIRO, May 24 (MENA) - A security source dismissed as "untrue" reports circulated by a pro-Muslim Brotherhood webpage, claiming that unidentified men kidnapped an African refugee from his home in Cairo. This file was closed by the UN Refugee Agency ....

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