Security and Crime

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  • Court remands in custody 4 policemen for torture charges

    Date: 2015-12-06 11:38:43 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:41 - ID:3871193

    LUXOR, Upper Egypt, Dec 6 (MENA) - A court in Luxor decided Sunday to remand four policemen in custody for 15 days pending investigations over charges of torturing a citizen, identified as Talaat Shabeeb, to death. Earlier, the Public Prosecution ....

  • Pedestrian bridge collapses in Qalyoub, no casualties

    Date: 2015-12-06 08:27:47 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:17 - ID:3869618

    BANHA, Egypt, Dec 6 (MENA) - A pedestrian bridge partially collapsed in Qalyoub early Sunday but no casualties were reported. A speedy truck rammed into the concrete structure of the bridge, causing it to incline and have some of the bridge's ....

  • 12 MB members in custody for more 15 days in Gharbiya

    Date: 2015-12-05 22:34:47 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:113 - ID:3868962

    TANTA, Dec 5 (MENA) – Prosecution of East Tanta ordered on Saturday to remand 12 members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in custody for more 15 days pending further investigations. Earlier, Gharbiya security forces, in coordination with ....

  • 5 policemen arrested in Luxor after citizen dies in police station

    Date: 2015-12-05 17:47:38 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:85 - ID:3868053

    LUXOR, Egypt, Dec 5 (MENA) – Five policemen were arrested for four days pending a probe after a Luxor citizen died in a police station. Thus, the number of policemen arrested in the case rises to nine after four other policemen were seized ....

  • 3rd perpetrator of Agouza attack arrested

    Date: 2015-12-05 11:33:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:41 - ID:3864958

    GIZA, Dec 5 (MENA) - A third man suspected of conducting an arson attack against a nightclub in the Giza's district of Agouza was arrested on Saturday, a security source told MENA. The suspect was arrested from the nearby Embaba district, and ....

  • 3 killed, 6 injured when wanted man blew himself up in Lebanon

    Date: 2015-12-05 09:29:09 GMT - Lebanon - Security and Crime - SN:14 - ID:3863870

    BEIRUT, Dec 5 (MENA) - Three people were killed and six others injured after a wanted man blew himself up when the army raided his house in northern Lebanon. The wanted Mohammad Hamzeh blew himself up on Saturday when a force of the Lebanese Army ....

  • FBI says California killers show signs of radicalization

    Date: 2015-12-04 22:51:08 GMT - USA - Security and Crime - SN:91 - ID:3863365

    WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (MENA) - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is now treating Wednesday’s mass shooting that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, as terrorism, Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The agency’s director said the ....

  • Main suspects in Agoza nightclub attack nabbed

    Date: 2015-12-04 22:35:08 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:90 - ID:3863317

    CAIRO, Dec 4 (MENA) - Two main suspects in an Agoza nightclub attack that killed 16 people were arrested on Friday, the Interior Ministry said. In a statement, the ministry added the two suspects were taken into police custody after swift actions ....

  • Giza governor forms panel to check building harmed by firebombing

    Date: 2015-12-04 17:24:08 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:69 - ID:3862201

    GIZA, Egypt, Dec 4 (MENA) – Giza Governor Khaled Zakaria ordered to form a technical committee to check a building located above a restaurant that came under firebomb attack earlier on Friday. In statements, the governor said that an initial ....

  • Interior ministry says quarrel behind Agouza attack

    Date: 2015-12-04 09:48:19 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:33 - ID:3859846

    CAIRO, Dec 4 (MENA) – A quarrel between staffers of the burnt Agouza nightclub and other persons was behind an incident that occurred on Friday morning, a security media source said. In a statement by the Interior Ministry, the source said 16 ....

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