Security and Crime

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  • Alex. police on alert ahead of Christmas celebrations

    Date: 2018-01-06 07:58:51 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:11 - ID:7176829

    ALEXANDRIA, Jan 6 (MENA) - Alexandria police are on high alert ahead of Christmas celebrations. Barriers have been placed around churches and detours have been made as part of a security plan in the Mediterranean city. Metal detectors have ....

  • Mokattam police station protesters arrested -- Security source

    Date: 2018-01-06 05:39:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:2 - ID:7176702

    CAIRO, Jan 6 (MENA) - A source with Cairo Security Directorate said that some protesters at al Mokattam police station were arrested after trying to storm the facility. In statements, he added that they have hurled stones at security forces and ....

  • Interior Ministry closes five Facebook pages for inciting violence

    Date: 2018-01-05 14:04:26 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:38 - ID:7175927

    CAIRO, Jan 5 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry's Communications and Information Technology Sector announced on Friday that five Facebook pages were closed for inciting violence against state institutions and citizens. In a statement, the sector ....

  • Tourist killed, 12 injured when balloon fell down in Luxor

    Date: 2018-01-05 08:32:04 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:12 - ID:7175456

    LUXOR, Egypt, Jan 5 (MENA) - A female tourist was killed and 12 others were injured when a balloon fell down in Luxor on Friday morning due to bad weather. Luxor security director received a report that the accident took place when the balloon ....

  • Security source denies rumor by terrorist MB

    Date: 2018-01-05 08:17:12 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:10 - ID:7175443

    CAIRO, Jan 5 (MENA) - A security source on Friday denied rumors that were spread by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group that a quarrel between political detainees and criminal inmates in Kerdasa police station in Giza left some people ....

  • Interior Ministry says illegal practices never be tolerated

    Date: 2018-01-04 15:27:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:47 - ID:7174569

    CAIRO, Jan 4 (MENA) – Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar said Thursday police would never tolerate illegal activities that might endanger social peace and tranquility. Addressing a meeting to review security plans on the Eastern Christmas, ....

  • Coffee shop shooter in Fayyoum village held in custody pending investigation

    Date: 2018-01-04 13:56:51 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:36 - ID:7174307

    FAYYOUM, Egypt, Jan 4 (MENA) - A coffee shop shooter in a village in Fayyoum south west of Cairo has been remanded in custody for four days pending investigations. The prosecution's decision to this effect came after the young man, who is in his ....

  • 4 Takfiris killed in central Sinai - military spokesman

    Date: 2018-01-04 08:55:00 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:8 - ID:7173685

    CAIRO, Jan 4 (MENA) - Law enforcement forces of the Third Field Army in cooperation with the Air Forces killed over the past few days two dangerous Takfiri elements and arrested two others in central Sinai, Military Spokesman Tamer el Refaie ....

  • Security source: Police captain martyred by bomb blast in Bir el Abd

    Date: 2018-01-03 14:35:57 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:7172833

    CAIRO, Jan 3 (MENA) - A police captain from the civil protection force was killed on Wednesday by a bomb blast in the North Sinai area of Bir el Abd. The force in charge of combing the area of Abul Hassin in North Sinai had discovered the ....

  • Interior Ministry honors citizen who helped policemen arrest Helwan church attacker

    Date: 2017-12-31 18:12:54 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:66 - ID:7168346

    CAIRO, Dec 31 (MENA) – The Interior Ministry honored on Sunday a citizen who contributed to helping the arrest by policemen of a terrorist who attacked a church in Helwan district in Cairo. Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar tasked Head of ....

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