Security and Crime

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  • Interior ministry denies defusing crude bomb at Mohamed Abdel Wahhab Theater in Alex

    Date: 2016-07-06 06:25:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:6 - ID:5215829

    CAIRO, July 6 (MENA) – The Ministry of interior denied some media reports claiming that security forces defused a crude bomb at Mohamed Abdel Wahhab Theater in Alexandria's Azarita district. In a press release on Wednesday, an official from the ....

  • Interior ministry denies officer killed in drive-by shooting on Cairo-Alex road

    Date: 2016-07-06 04:42:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:2 - ID:5215669

    CAIRO, July 6 (MENA) – The Interior Ministry denied on Wednesday some media reports claiming the killing of an officer in a drive-by shooting on Cairo-Alexandria desert road. Two unidentified gunmen opened fire at the car of Abdel Halim Hemeida ....

  • Orthodox church dismisses reports on attacks against monks

    Date: 2016-07-05 21:08:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:86 - ID:5215193

    CAIRO, July 5 (MENA) - The Coptic Orthodox Church has dismissed reports claiming that monks were attacked on Cairo-Alexandria desert highway. On Tuesday, Spokesperson of the Coptic Orthodox Church Father Boules Halim said the killing of a monk ....

  • Body of Egyptian killed in Kuwait brought to Cairo

    Date: 2016-07-05 18:39:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:77 - ID:5214785

    CAIRO, July 5 (MENA) - The body of an Egyptian worker who was killed in a blood feud in Kuwait was brought to Cairo on Tuesday. Diaa Gamal Abdel Hamid had been stabbed in the head to death, according to a forensic report. The body will be ....

  • Security forces seize narcotics depot, firearm in S. Sinai

    Date: 2016-07-05 16:30:47 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:70 - ID:5214329

    CAIRO, July 5 (MENA) - Security forces have seized a depot of narcotics containing 1,300 kg of marijuana (bangu) in South Sinai. Police had acted upon information that some drug dealers stored huge amounts of "bangu" in a mountainous area in ....

  • Security plan drawn up to secure Eidul Fitr celebrations -- Official

    Date: 2016-07-05 12:31:58 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:45 - ID:5212633

    CAIRO, July 5 (MENA) - An expanded security plan was drawn up to secure celebrations of Eidul Fitr, scheduled to start on Wednesday, Assistant Interior Minister and Director of the General Department for Civil Protection Maj. Gen. Mohamed Saqr ....

  • 31 fugitives arrested in N.Sinai

    Date: 2016-07-05 06:36:04 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:10 - ID:5211105

    ARISH, July 5 (MENA) - Thirty-one wanted criminals were arrested in wide-scale security campaigns in North Sinai governorate. All legal measures were taken against them. (MENA) R R N/ ....

  • Security forces seize 2 terrorist hotbeds

    Date: 2016-07-04 13:30:19 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:63 - ID:5207677

    CAIRO, July 4 (MENA) - Security bodies at the Interior Ministry continued Monday to launch preemptive strikes against terror elements. The national security sector managed to seize two hotbeds for the terrorist Brotherhood group in the ....

  • Campaign by Security agencies to hunt down smugglers ahead of Eidul Fitr

    Date: 2016-07-04 12:58:34 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:61 - ID:5207549

    CAIRO. July 4 (MENA) - Security agencies have managed to seize 1.5 million pieces of fireworks before being smuggled to markets ahead of Eidul Fitr (Lesser Bairam) and prepared 152 reports about the seized items. The seizure of the items came in ....

  • Giza security forces arrest dangerous criminals

    Date: 2016-07-04 11:31:34 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:48 - ID:5206621

    CAIRO, July 4 (MENA) - Security bodies in Giza security directorate managed to arrest most dangerous criminals specialized in robbing houses in Sixth of October and Sheikh Zuwaid cities. The notorious criminals admitted that they robbed 102 ....

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