Security and Crime

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  • 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 ....

  • 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/ ....

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