Security and Crime

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  • Police seize 8,989 arms, 446 gangs in 3 months

    Date: 2015-04-27 09:53:46 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:34 - ID:2464481

    CAIRO, April 27 (MENA) - Security forces continued wide-scale campaigns to confront acts of thuggery, arrest outlaws and seize firearms and unlicensed weapons. Security forces seized 8,989 arms, including machine-guns, pistols and locally-made ....

  • MB teacher arrested in Sohag

    Date: 2015-04-27 06:23:12 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:10 - ID:2463189

    SOHAG, April 27 (MENA) - Security bodies in Sohag arrested a Muslim Brotherhood teacher. The 39-year-old teacher is charged with possessing MB publications instigating violence. (MENA) M H K/S R E ....

  • Bomb defused after explosion of 2 power towers in Nubariya

    Date: 2015-04-27 05:10:56 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:2 - ID:2462977

    DAMANHUR, Egypt, April 27 (MENA) - Explosives disposal experts were able to defuse a bomb placed near two power towers that were targeted overnight Monday. A number of terrorists had planted six highly-explosive bombs near the two high-voltage ....

  • 2 power towers blown up in Nubariya city

    Date: 2015-04-27 05:01:23 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:1 - ID:2462957

    DAMANHUR, April 27 (MENA) - A number of unidentified persons have blown up two high voltage electricity towers in Nubariya city. Power lines fell down on Cairo-Alexandria desert road as a result of the blast. Traffic was halted and the power ....

  • 276 wanted criminals arrested in N. Sinai

    Date: 2015-04-26 22:52:41 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:140 - ID:2462661

    ARISH, Egypt, April 26 (MENA) - Police arrested 276 suspects, wanted criminals and fugitives in a security campaign launched in North Sinai on Sunday. The campaign is part of the Interior Ministry's efforts to bring back security to the Sinai ....

  • 14,400 fireworks seized in Alexandria

    Date: 2015-04-26 19:23:19 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:112 - ID:2461837

    ALEXANDRIA, April 26 (MENA) – Security forces in Alexandria seized more than 14,000 fireworks before being sold in the markets for the public. Police arrested a trader with nearly 14,400 fireworks in his possession. The public prosecution was ....

  • 5 MB members arrested in Alex.

    Date: 2015-04-26 15:42:36 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:88 - ID:2460585

    ALEXANDRIA, April 26 (MENA) - Security forces arrested on Sunday five Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members in Alexandria. They are wanted on charges of staging protests and inciting violence in the Mediterranean city. The public prosecution was ....

  • One killed, 11 suspects arrested in N. Sinai

    Date: 2015-04-26 15:37:48 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:85 - ID:2459533

    EL ARISH, April 26 (MENA) - An expanded security operation in North Sinai has left one takfiri dead and 11 suspects arrested. Security sources said the operation targeted southern Arish, Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafah. A number of hotspots were ....

  • 3 terrorist MB members arrested in N. Sinai over violence charges

    Date: 2015-04-25 22:32:56 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:103 - ID:2455617

    ARISH, April 25 (MENA) - Three members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) were arrested in North Sinai on Saturday over violence charges. A security source said that an MB student was arrested over charges of setting fire to a diesel ....

  • Electricity tower sabotaged in Fayyoum

    Date: 2015-04-25 20:30:22 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:95 - ID:2455325

    CAIRO, April 25 (MENA) - Saboteurs damaged a 220 kV electricity tower in a Fayyoum village late on Saturday, the Egyptian Electricity Transfer Company said. Unidentified men destroyed the bases of the tower using explosives, the company ....

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