Security and Crime

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  • Gharbia security director checks on security in Mahala, Tanta

    Date: 2016-03-25 10:57:44 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:38 - ID:4584457

    TANTA, March 25 (MENA) - Gharbia Security Director Nabil Abdel Fattah checked Friday on security condition in Mahala and Tanta. Abdel Fattah visited checkpoints at the entrances and exits of the cities. The security situation in the ....

  • Interior Ministry: Italian Regeni’s belongings found at house of hunted-down gang member

    Date: 2016-03-24 22:48:07 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:121 - ID:4582909

    CAIRO, March 24 (MENA) - Egyptian police have found an Italian flag-marked handbag containing a passport, a wallet and ID cards belonging to Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni, whose body was found in a ditch on the edge of Cairo in February, the ....

  • Police seize 421 unlicensed weapons in 24 hours

    Date: 2016-03-24 15:34:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:85 - ID:4580389

    CAIRO, March 24 (MENA) - The Public Security Sector at the Interior Ministry continued its nationwide campaigns to arrest outlaws and holders of unlicensed weapons and to restore security. The campaigns, which were launched upon directives of ....

  • Interior: Gang members impersonating police officers to kidnap, rob foreigners killed

    Date: 2016-03-24 12:02:52 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:47 - ID:4579041

    CAIRO, March 24 (MENA) – Security forces targeted a gang in New Cairo that was impersonating police officers to kidnap and rob foreigners, an official at the Interior Ministry media center said on Thursday. During the operation, the forces and ....

  • Attempt to smuggle 1.5 million fireworks to Egypt foiled

    Date: 2016-03-23 16:06:44 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:92 - ID:4573637

    CAIRO, March 23 (MENA) - Suez security forces foiled on Wednesday an attempt by a Cairo-based company to smuggle 1.5 million fireworks to Egypt via Port Said port. The smuggled item were hidden within two containers. Legal procedures were ....

  • Interior ministry denies defusing 2 explosive charges in Kerdasa

    Date: 2016-03-23 13:42:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:68 - ID:4572373

    CAIRO, March 23 (MENA) - An official in the Interior Ministry's security media center denied news reported by some news websites on Wednesday about dismantling two explosive charges by sappers of Giza Security Directorate in Kerdasa area. In a ....

  • Terrorist accused of arson in Suez nabbed

    Date: 2016-03-23 11:36:14 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:38 - ID:4570953

    SUEZ, Egypt, March 23 (MENA) - The Suez security forces in cooperation with the national security apparatus managed to arrest fugitive terrorist Ahmed Sobhy Abdullah who is a member of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB). He is accused of ....

  • Security source: Terrorist cell involved in targeting schools in Sharqiya uncovered

    Date: 2016-03-22 13:51:49 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:78 - ID:4563901

    CAIRO, March 22 (MENA) - Security forces uncovered on Tuesday a terrorist Muslim Brotherhood cell involved in targeting State facilities in Sharqiya. Speaking to MENA, a security source said the cell is composed of six members of the terrorist MB ....

  • Security measures tightened at Cairo airport

    Date: 2016-03-22 13:47:51 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:79 - ID:4563929

    CAIRO, March 22 (MENA) - Cairo airport security director Major General Fahmy Megahed said the Ministry of Interior has issued directives to step up security measures at Cairo airport during the coming period to deal with the technological ....

  • Border security personnel seize huge amount of drugs

    Date: 2016-03-22 10:58:37 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:4561477

    CAIRO, March 22 (MENA) - Egyptian border security personnel seized a huge amount of drugs, the military spokesman said. The second field army personnel seized 35 kilograms of cannabis, 53,800 Tamol and Tramadol tablets and 168 carcinogenic ....

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