Security and Crime

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  • Interior minister urges more security along main roads, axes

    Date: 2016-11-20 09:58:41 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:17 - ID:5994237

    CAIRO, Nov 20 (MENA) - Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar called on Sunday for beefing up security along roads and main axes, especially in new cities and desert areas, to face violence and arrest criminal gangs. Abdel Ghaffar, during a meeting ....

  • Press syndicate to appeal against verdict jailing head, 2 members

    Date: 2016-11-19 22:18:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:65 - ID:5992897

    CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) – The Syndicate of Journalists’ board has decided to pay a bail of 10,000 pounds for the head of the syndicate and two board members who were sentenced to two years in prison for harboring two wanted men, the union’s secretary ....

  • Killers of police general in Qena arrested

    Date: 2016-11-19 19:54:50 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:61 - ID:5992605

    QENA, Egypt, Nov 19 (MENA) – Security forces in Qena governorate have arrested the killers of a retired police major general in his house. Four criminals stormed the officer’s house in central Qena for theft. They killed the general and left ....

  • Child killed, another injured in garbage bomb blast in Cairo

    Date: 2016-11-19 19:51:00 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:58 - ID:5992373

    CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) – A home-made bomb went off in a garbage at a house in Manshiyet Nasser district in eastern Cairo on Saturday, killing a child and wounding another. The bomb went off while the two children were playing in the house of one of ....

  • 7 persons arrested for kidnapping student for EGP 3-mln ransom

    Date: 2016-11-19 16:37:38 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:51 - ID:5991617

    GIZA, Egypt, Nov 19 (MENA) - Giza security bodies on Saturday arrested seven persons, who involved with two others, in kidnapping a student and requesting an EGP three-million ransom from his family to release him. The 17-year-old student was ....

  • Security campaign in Cairo to restore civilized image of capital

    Date: 2016-11-19 13:57:36 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:41 - ID:5990425

    CAIRO, Nov 19 (MENA) - Security forces have launched a wide-scale campaign to remove encroachments on roads by hawkers and to restore the civilized image of the capital. Upon directives from Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, the campaign - ....

  • 32 fugitives arrested in North Sinai

    Date: 2016-11-18 21:20:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:80 - ID:5987829

    El ARISH, Nov 18 (MENA) – Security forces arrested 32 fugitives and wanted elements involved in different cases in North Sinai. According to a security source on Friday, the arrests came within the framework of tightened security measures and ....

  • Forensic Medicine Authority says no autopsy report issued on death of cart driver

    Date: 2016-11-17 22:05:29 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:88 - ID:5983405

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) – Assistant Justice Minister and Head of Forensic Medicine Authority Omar Marwan on Thursday asserted that no autopsy report was issued into the death of 50-year old Magdy Makeen. In a statement, Marwan said that the corpse ....

  • Narcotics gang arrested in Dakahliya

    Date: 2016-11-17 21:38:20 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:87 - ID:5983393

    MANSOURA, Egypt, Nov 17 (MENA) – Security forces in Dakahliya arrested three registered criminals for trading narcotics in the governorate. The three were nabbed upon information of trafficking in various places in the Nile Delta governorate. ....

  • Prison department starts procedures to release pardoned youths

    Date: 2016-11-17 15:38:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:63 - ID:5980801

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) – The Interior Ministry’s prison department started procedures for the immediate release of youths subject to a presidential pardon issued earlier Thursday, a high-level security source said. The youths will be released from ....

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