Security and Crime

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  • Admin of Facebook page inciting attack on police, army arrested

    Date: 2015-04-09 10:37:01 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:2343953

    CAIRO, April 9 (MENA) – Security forces arrested on Thursday a man in Dakahlia Governorate who is accused of administrating a page on Facebook that incites attack on police and army forces as well as causing chaos. The page is also calling for ....

  • Suez on alert ahead of Easter

    Date: 2015-04-09 08:02:54 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:21 - ID:2342629

    SUEZ, Egypt, April 9 (MENA) - Suez Security Chief Tarek el Gazzar inspected on Thursday checkpoints deployed outside churches to secure Copts' celebrations of the Easter. In press statements, Gazzar said police forces are on alert to secure ....

  • Habitual criminal killed in exchange of fire with police in Monufia

    Date: 2015-04-09 06:38:50 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:13 - ID:2342205

    SHEBIN EL KOM, Egypt, April 9 (MENA) – A habitual criminal, Adel Allam, was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Sadat city of Monufia governorate. Earlier, prosecution ordered to arrest the criminal, accusing him of killing a ....

  • Arsih on high alert following death of 2 officers

    Date: 2015-04-09 04:56:07 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:2 - ID:2342049

    ARISH, April 9 (MENA) - A state of high alert was announced in the North Sinai city of Arish following the death of two officers and the injury of three conscripts in a roadside bomb blast. All exits and entrances of the city were sealed off and ....

  • 2 officers killed, 3 conscripts wounded in Arish blast

    Date: 2015-04-09 04:47:40 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:1 - ID:2342041

    CAIRO, April 9 (MENA) - Two officers were killed and three conscripts were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Arish late on Wednesday, a statement by the Interior Ministry said. While security forces were patrolling the international road in ....

  • 106 people caught trying to cross into Libya

    Date: 2015-04-08 11:28:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:39 - ID:2337261

    MARSA MATROUH, Egypt, April 8 (MENA) - As many as 106 people, including eight Sudanese, were arrested while trying to infiltrate into Libya via a desert route in Salloum city western Egypt, security sources said. They were referred to the ....

  • Exceptional visits for inmates during Easter

    Date: 2015-04-08 11:15:07 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:33 - ID:2337253

    CAIRO, April 8 (MENA) - Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar approved on Wednesday exceptional visits to inmates in prisons and correction facilities nationwide on the occasion of the Easter The visits will start as of Tuesday to Thursday, the ....

  • Police seize 90 firearms, remove 4,113 encroachments nationwide

    Date: 2015-04-07 12:49:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:2330357

    CAIRO, April 7 (MENA) - In a wide-scale campaign over the past 24 hours, security forces seized 90 firearms and a huge amount of ammunition. As many as 233 drug cases, 325 supply cases were registered, according to security sources. Also, ....

  • 8 Iranian guards killed near Pakistan border

    Date: 2015-04-07 08:10:00 GMT - Iran - Security and Crime - SN:8 - ID:2327605

    TEHRAN, April 7 (MENA) - Eight border guards have been killed by gunmen in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan near the border with Pakistan, a provincial official was quoted by Press TV channel as saying. The eight were killed in a ....

  • We will not be deterred by terror acts: Aswan governor

    Date: 2015-04-06 22:50:44 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:162 - ID:2326981

    ASWAN, Upper Egypt, April 6 (MENA) - Aswan Governor Mostafa Yousri has said that "inhumane" terror acts will not deter the Egyptian people from developing their country, yet they will be more powerful and united. Yousri was speaking during a ....

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