Security and Crime

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  • Trial of Zawahri's brother, 67 other terrorists postponed

    Date: 2015-06-06 20:29:50 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:117 - ID:2743349

    CAIRO, June 6 (MENA) - Cairo Criminal Court has adjourned until Monday the trial of 68 terrorists, including Mohamed el Zawahri - brother of Al Qaeda's number one leader Ayman el Zawahri, over charges of forming a terrorist organization. In April ....

  • Policeman killed while defusing suspected bomb in Gharbiya

    Date: 2015-06-06 19:22:55 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:111 - ID:2743085

    CAIRO, June 6 (MENA) – A non-commissioned police officer was killed on Saturday when a suspected bomb he was defusing went off in a farm in Gharbiya, a security source with the Interior Ministry said. Earlier, security bodies received a report ....

  • Gharbiya investigation: 5 terrorists arrested while attempting to plant explosives

    Date: 2015-06-06 14:03:31 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:66 - ID:2741125

    TANTA, Egypt, June 6 (MENA) - Gharbiya investigation arrested five terrorists of the Muslim Brotherhood during their attempt to plant five explosive charges near a railway line in Samanoud neighborhood in Tanta. Gharbiya Security Director General ....

  • Securit source: Tight security measures during Thanawya Amma exams

    Date: 2015-06-06 06:54:42 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:6 - ID:2738241

    CAIRO, June 6 (MENA) – Security services have tightened measure to secure the final exams of the main secondary stage (Thanawya Amma), which start today nationwide, a high-level security source said. All Interior Ministry sectors have taken ....

  • 3 persons killed, 4 injured in separate accidents

    Date: 2015-06-05 20:10:16 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:102 - ID:2737329

    CAPITALS OF GOVERNORATES, Egypt, June 5 (MENA) – Three persons, including a child, were killed and four others were injured in separate accidents in Beheira and Suez. Meanwhile, civil protection forces in Fayoum managed to control a fire that that ....

  • Terrorist cell targeting policemen in Sohag nabbed

    Date: 2015-06-05 16:06:41 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:84 - ID:2736553

    SOHAG, Upper Egypt, June 5 (MENA) - Sohag police have arrested a terrorist cell grouping 21 elements of the subcommittees of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) while planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the Upper Egyptian city. They were ....

  • Cairo security chief visits injured Helwan officer

    Date: 2015-06-05 14:21:24 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:69 - ID:2735869

    CAIRO, June 5 (MENA) - Cairo security chief Osama Bedair visited Friday an officer, who was injured in a blast near his home in Helwan. The officer, identified as first lieutenant Mohamed Samir, was wounded after an explosive device planted in a ....

  • Police chief: Security measures beefed up in Dakahliya

    Date: 2015-06-05 11:15:53 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:2734569

    MANSOURA, Egypt, June 5 (MENA) – Security forces stepped up their presence at the vital facilities in Dakahliya including prisons, police stations, holy places of worship, railways and electricity pylons, Dakahliya Security Chief Saeed Shalaby ....

  • Suez heavily secured on Friday

    Date: 2015-06-05 09:21:58 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:27 - ID:2733833

    SUEZ, Egypt, June 5 (MENA) – Helicopters hovered intensively in Suez's skies to comb rugged areas in Ataqa Mountain, the Suez Canal, Ain Sokhna and petroleum companies, a military source said. They also flew over the Suez-Ismailia and Suez-Cairo ....

  • Security measures beefed up in Alexandria

    Date: 2015-06-05 08:16:13 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:20 - ID:2733545

    ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June 5 (MENA) - Security measures have been beefed up in the coastal city of Alexandria in anticipation of protests by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group. Rapid deployment forces were positioned Friday on main squares in ....

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