Security and Crime

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  • 3 gas pipelines bombed in Beheira

    Date: 2015-04-24 06:14:48 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:2 - ID:2445449

    DAMANHUR, Egypt, April 24 (MENA) – Unidentified persons bombed three gas pipelines near a police roadblock in the Beheira town of Kafr el Dawwar on Friday. The three pipelines were feeding a gas cylinder filling plant in the town. A security ....

  • 1,750 anti-aircraft projectiles seized in Sinai

    Date: 2015-04-23 22:44:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:158 - ID:2445161

    ARISH, Egypt, April 23 (MENA) - North Sinai security forces seized 1,750 anti-aircraft projectiles and 3,000 bullets from the remnants of previous wars in a mountainous area in central Sinai. Legal action was taken into the incident. In ....

  • 87 MB middle-ranking leaders arrested

    Date: 2015-04-23 14:05:43 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:92 - ID:2442137

    CAIRO, April 23 (MENA) – Eighty-seven middle-ranking leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group have been arrested in the past 24 hours. The arrests were made over their involvement in attacks against public and private institutions and ....

  • 6 takfiris killed, several terrorist hotbeds destroyed in North Sinai

    Date: 2015-04-23 13:56:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:87 - ID:2441953

    EL ARISH, Egypt, April 23 (MENA) - Security bodies in North Sinai launched an intensive security campaign in North Arish, Sheikh Zewayed and Rafah. The campaign resulted in the killing of six Takfiris and the arrest of nine suspects. Also, a ....

  • Interior min. stresses importance of training

    Date: 2015-04-23 12:30:05 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:77 - ID:2441097

    CAIRO, April 23 (MENA) – The police are facing a confrontation that requires special attention to training and good preparation for preemptive strikes against evil elements, Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar said. Policemen will continue ....

  • 5 terrorist attacks foiled in France, says PM

    Date: 2015-04-23 07:51:17 GMT - France - Security and Crime - SN:22 - ID:2438569

    PARIS, April 23 (MENA) - French police have foiled five terrorist attacks in recent months, the BBC quoted Prime Minister Manuel Valls as saying on Thursday. He told the French radio that the latest was a planned attack on churches in the Paris ....

  • Soldier wounded in attack on Arish checkpoint

    Date: 2015-04-22 11:49:28 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:43 - ID:2432881

    RAFAH, April 22 (MENA) - A number of gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint in southern Rafah Wednesday, wounding one soldier. Khaled el Badri Khalifa, 22, received a shot to his right shoulder. He was moved to Al Arish Military Hospital. ....

  • Interior Ministry mourns Arish police station victim

    Date: 2015-04-22 10:07:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:28 - ID:2432421

    CAIRO, April 22 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry mourned on Wednesday Major Mohamed Khaled Abdel Latif who succumbed to wounds he sustained during a terrorist attack on Arish police station earlier the month. In a statement, the ministry stressed ....

  • Police officer, soldier shot dead in Cairo

    Date: 2015-04-21 21:16:30 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:154 - ID:2430081

    CAIRO, April 21 (MENA) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a police officer and a soldier in Cairo on Tuesday. Colonel Wael Tahoun and the soldier came under fire near the officer's house in Helmiyet el Zeitoun neighborhood, a security source told ....

  • Ahram ex-official released on bail over corruption

    Date: 2015-04-21 18:29:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:138 - ID:2429425

    CAIRO, April 21 (MENA) - An investigating judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a former official of Al Ahram Press Institution over corruption charges. Hoda Awadallah, ex-head of the central management of Ahram's advertisement accountancy, was ....

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