Security and Crime

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  • Security bodies seize 313 weapons, 46.000 fireworks during 24 hours

    Date: 2016-07-10 16:20:44 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:58 - ID:5234921

    CAIRO, July 10 (MENA) - Security bodies in the Interior Ministry resumed campaigns to overcome thuggery acts, arrest outlaws and restore law in the Egyptian streets. The campaigns, launched upon directives by Interior Minister Magdy Abdel ....

  • 1,100 Tramadol, Tamol pills seized with passenger at Cairo airport

    Date: 2016-07-10 13:00:24 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:38 - ID:5233385

    CAIRO, July 10 (MENA) – Cairo airport authorities on Sunday foiled an attempt by an Egyptian passenger to smuggle 1,100 Tramadol and Tamol pills. The authorities found the pills in meat bags belonging to the passenger who was heading to ....

  • Interior minister heads for Germany

    Date: 2016-07-10 12:49:38 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:32 - ID:5233381

    CAIRO, July 10 (MENA) - Minister of Interior major general Magdy Abdel Ghaffar left Cairo Sunday for Berlin on a several-days visit to Germany at the head of high-level security delegation. He will discuss with German officials security ....

  • Infiltration attempt of 37 people into Libya foiled

    Date: 2016-07-09 14:16:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:5229717

    MARSA MATROUH, Egypt, July 9 (MENA) - Matrouh security bodies on Saturday foiled an attempt by 36 Egyptians in addition to a Sudanese national to infiltrate into Libya via Salloum crossing. All the necessary legal measures were taken and they ....

  • Police sergeant killed by unidentified gunmen in Arish - interior ministry

    Date: 2016-07-09 14:05:13 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:38 - ID:5229649

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - Police sergeant Mohamed Soliman el Damanhory was killed Saturday when unidentified gunmen opened fire at him while he was at Arish police station, said a source at the security media center. In a statement issued by the ....

  • Driver, student arrested over smoke bombs possession

    Date: 2016-07-09 12:21:17 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:26 - ID:5228673

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - Cairo police arrested a driver and a student with 67 smoke bombs in their possession on Suez road. During a patrol for the security troops on a Suez checkpoint, the 54-year-old and 17-year-old defendants appeared to have ....

  • 26 fugitives arrested in N.Sinai

    Date: 2016-07-07 06:01:55 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:5 - ID:5219465

    ARISH, July 7 (MENA) - Security forces arrested 26 wanted criminals in wide-scale security campaigns in North Sinai governorate. All legal measures were taken against them. (MENA) R R N/ ....

  • Security forces release kidnapped man in Luxor

    Date: 2016-07-06 11:18:42 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:35 - ID:5217117

    LUXOR, Upper Egypt, July 6 (MENA) – Security forces in Luxor freed a young man after 24 hours of his abduction by unidentified persons. The kidnappers had contacted the man’s father calling for an EGP 150,000 ransom for his release and threatened ....

  • 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 ....

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