Security and Crime

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  • Cairo airport authorities seize EGP 100,000 from passenger heading to UAE

    Date: 2016-05-26 14:35:19 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:55 - ID:4985989

    CAIRO, May 26 (MENA) – Cairo International Airport authorities on Thursday arrested a passenger, who was heading to the UAE, with 100,000 pounds in his possession in violation of the law. The authorities seized the money and referred the passenger ....

  • 400 tons of hashish seized during 2015 - official

    Date: 2016-05-25 11:42:58 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:4977805

    CAIRO, May 25 (MENA) - Security agencies seized about 400 tons of hashish and large amounts of narcotic pills during 2015, said Director of the Anti-Narcotics General Administration Ahmed el Khouly said. Speaking at a press conference on ....

  • Egyptian investigation panel following up search operation for MS804 wreckage

    Date: 2016-05-24 15:55:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:80 - ID:4972345

    CAIRO, May 24 (MENA) - An Egyptian team investigating the EgyptAir plane crash is following up search operations in the hope to retrieve more wreckage from the Mediterranean waters. Jets from the Egyptian air force and the Ministry of Petroleum, as ....

  • FMA takes DNA samples from families of plane victims

    Date: 2016-05-24 14:18:24 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:62 - ID:4971905

    CAIRO, May 24 (MENA) - The Civil Aviation Ministry said Tuesday that a team from the Forensic Medicine Authority (FMA) arrived at a hotel, where families of the EgyptAir plane victims are staying to get DNA samples to be able to identify the ....

  • 5 killed, wounded in Sohag firefight

    Date: 2016-05-24 13:00:16 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:47 - ID:4971881

    SOHAG, Upper Egypt, May 24 (MENA) - One person was killed and four others were wounded on Tuesday in a firefight between two families in Sohag. Wafaa Mostafa El Sayyed, 45, breathed her last after receiving a bullet in the chest. The injured ....

  • Semi-military cloth seized in Alexandria

    Date: 2016-05-23 22:52:50 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:99 - ID:4967305

    ALEXANDRIA, May 23 (MENA) - Alexandria port authorities have seized a large amount of semi-military cloth before entering the country. The 1.75-ton cloth was hidden inside a consignment coming to the port. It was confiscated. Competent ....

  • Police seize 'illegal network for passing int'l calls' in Cairo

    Date: 2016-05-23 19:08:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:88 - ID:4967273

    CAIRO, May 23 (MENA) - A complete system for illegally channeling international phone calls that caused more than EGP 15 million of losses to Telecom Egypt has been seized by police in Cairo, said security authorities. The system was run by a man ....

  • Security forces continue to fight goods smuggling

    Date: 2016-05-23 15:24:43 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:69 - ID:4966221

    CAIRO, May 23 (MENA) – Security forces continued efforts to fight the illegal smuggling of goods nationwide. In just a week, the public security sector detained 13 smugglers, handled 64 cases of smuggling foreign goods and products of unknown ....

  • Three persons killed, injured in shootout with police in Cairo - interior ministry

    Date: 2016-05-23 14:57:22 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:62 - ID:4966001

    CAIRO, May 23 (MENA) - An official at the security media center said Monday that police personnel suspected four persons driving a car near New Cairo. In a statement issued by the Interior Ministry, the official underlined that when the policemen ....

  • Another person in Saudi businessman's kidnap nabbed

    Date: 2016-05-23 14:40:05 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:57 - ID:4965617

    CAIRO, May 23 (MENA) - Policemen managed to arrest the fourth person in the gang believed to be involved in kidnapping Saudi businessman. The police personnel received information about the presence of a runaway criminal who is accused of ....

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