Security and Crime

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  • Security forces pursue two suspects over Sunday church bombing

    Date: 2016-12-13 20:59:18 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:100 - ID:6143697

    CAIRO, Dec 13 (MENA) – A senior security official told MENA on Tuesday night that two suspects were being pursued over Sunday's bombing of St. Peter Church regardless of their terror ideologies. The official said the security forces intensified ....

  • Interior Ministry announces details of arrest of suspects in church attack

    Date: 2016-12-12 22:41:03 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:102 - ID:6136649

    CAIRO, Dec 12 (MENA) – The Interior Ministry said on Monday that a team of investigators had been formed following the deadly attack on a Cairo Church on Sunday. The investigations conducted by the national security sector revealed that a man ....

  • Man wearing niqab arrested near Assiut church

    Date: 2016-12-11 22:15:24 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:165 - ID:6129805

    ASSIUT, Egypt, Dec 11 (MENA) - A man wearing a full-face veil (niqab) was arrested near Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut on Sunday night. Assiut security chief Atef Qelei'ie was notified and relevant ....

  • Security tightened in railway stations

    Date: 2016-12-11 18:59:14 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:145 - ID:6129065

    CAIRO, Dec 11 (MENA) - The security alert has been raised in the railway stations across the country following Sunday's church bombing. Head of Egypt's Railway Authority Medhat Shoushaa instructed the transport police to keep alerted to secure ....

  • Security tightened around Egypt churches

    Date: 2016-12-11 18:23:05 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:134 - ID:6128933

    CAPITALS OF GOVERNORATES, Dec 11 (MENA) - The security alert has been raised around churches in the various Egyptian governorates on Sunday following today's church bombing. At least 25 people were killed and 49 others injured when an explosion ....

  • Interior min.: Church attack targets all Egyptians

    Date: 2016-12-11 15:23:25 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:99 - ID:6126453

    CAIRO, Dec 11 (MENA) – Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar asserted on Sunday the terrorist attack that rocked El Boutroseya Coptic Orthodox Church this morning, targets all Egyptians. Abdel Ghaffar announced that he ordered forming an expanded ....

  • Parliament committee mourns blast victims

    Date: 2016-12-11 14:42:51 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:87 - ID:6126513

    CAIRO, Dec 11 (MENA) - The Parliament's Culture, Media and Antiquities Committee, chaired by Ossama Heikal, expressed denunciation of the criminal act that occurred at the Botroseya Church Sunday morning. Such terrible act asserts that terrorism ....

  • Supreme Council of Press condemns terrorist attack on Church

    Date: 2016-12-11 14:33:39 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:80 - ID:6126821

    CAIRO, Dec 11 (MENA) - The Supreme Council of the Press condemned the heinous crime against Egyptian Christians praying inside the Botroseya Church in Abbasseya earlier Sunday and expressed condolences to Pope Tawadros II, President Abdel Fattah El ....

  • Evangelical church condemns terrorist attack near Abbasia cathedral

    Date: 2016-12-11 14:25:57 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:74 - ID:6125633

    CAIRO, Dec 11 (MENA) - Head of the Evangelical Church of Egypt Andrea Zaki has denounced Sunday's terrorist attack in the precincts of the Abbassiya-based Cathedral on Sunday which left a number of people dead and wounded. In a statement, Zaki ....

  • Prosecution inspection: Woman side mainly targeted at El Boutroseya Church blast

    Date: 2016-12-11 14:17:23 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:68 - ID:6126201

    CAIRO, Dec 11 (MENA) – The initial inspection of the prosecution, conducted by Prosecutor General Nabil Sadeq, unveiled that the terrorist blast that hit El Boutroseya Coptic Orthodox Church this morning took place on the women's side on the right ....

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