Security and Crime

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  • Criminal killed, another injured in shooting with police in Assiut

    Date: 2024-08-06 12:33:29 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:34 - ID:10817898

    CAIRO, Aug 6 (MENA) – A criminal was killed and another injured in a shoot-out with the police in Assiut. The criminals were convicted in several crimes including murder, drugs, unlicensed weapon, arson attack and robbery. Six machineguns, 5 ....

  • Interior minister reviews security strategy for upcoming period

    Date: 2024-08-05 15:50:34 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:37 - ID:10816446

    Cairo, August 5 (MENA) - Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfik held a meeting with his aides to review stages of the implementation the national security strategy and its main pillars. At the meeting, convened via video conference, the minister ....

  • Plot to smuggle 250,000 Captagon pills thwarted

    Date: 2024-08-04 15:23:26 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:44 - ID:10815217

    CAIRO, Aug 4 (MENA) - Security forces on Sunday foiled a plot to smuggle 250,000 Captagon pills, valued at EGP 300 million. A gang consisting of nine people of various nationalities had been storing Captagon pills at a farm in Shorouk City with ....

  • Thinker Islam el Behairy arrested over bad cheques charges

    Date: 2024-08-04 04:57:56 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:2 - ID:10814210

    CAIRO, Aug 4 (MENA) - Security forces arrested thinker Islam el Behairy over bad cheques charges. Behairy is wanted to execute six verdicts, all related to issuing bounced cheques. Necessary legal action was taken against him. (MENA) S R E ....

  • Illegal forex trading cases worth EGP 13 mln detected in past 24 hours

    Date: 2024-07-26 09:06:40 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:20 - ID:10802531

    CAIRO, July 26 (MENA) - Security bodies have found a number of cases of illegal trading in foreign exchange worth EGP 13 million over the past 24 hours. All legal measures have been taken against them. This comes as part of security efforts ....

  • 2,009 inmates pardoned on occasion of July 23 Revolution anniversary

    Date: 2024-07-23 16:02:44 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:65 - ID:10799012

    CAIRO, July 23 (MENA) - The Society Protection Sector at the Ministry of Interior pardoned 2,009 prisoners, and who are eligible for release in accordance with presidential pardon terms, on the occasion marking the anniversary of July 23 ....

  • Six people apprehended in Cairo over illegal archaeological excavations

    Date: 2024-07-22 11:42:12 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:26 - ID:10796602

    CAIRO, July 22 (MENA) - Interior Ministry managed on Monday to apprehend 6 persons in Cairo while they were engaged in unauthorized excavation activities for antiquities. Information and investigations received by the Cairo security directorate ....

  • Forensic report: Technical failure behind Qena's electrical transformers fire

    Date: 2024-07-21 12:23:44 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:29 - ID:10795164

    CAIRO, July 21 (MENA) - Investigations have revealed that the fire that broke out in an electrical transformers at Mahrousa power station in the Upper Egypt governorate of Qena was an accidental one, due to a technical failure. A forensic report ....

  • Interior Ministry: Extra visits to inmates on anniversary of July 23 Revolution

    Date: 2024-07-21 09:50:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:18 - ID:10794928

    CAIRO, July 21 (MENA) – The Interior Ministry decided Sunday to allow one extra visit to each inmate on the anniversary of the July 23 Revolution. In a statement today, the Interior Ministry said the extra visits will be granted as of Tuesday ....

  • 2 brothers killed in brawl in Qena

    Date: 2024-07-16 21:38:19 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:73 - ID:10788901

    QENA, Upper Egypt, July 17 (MENA) – Two brothers were shot dead in a brawl in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena. The 19-year-old and 22-year-old brothers were killed during a gunfight with their cousins over the possession of a plot of land ....

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