Shutting down more than 1,000 drug farms

Efforts of the security bodies in the Egyptian Ministry of Interior in coordination with the armed forces resulted in terminating 1,148 drug farms in the south Sinai area.

A statement issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Interior said that two suspects were arrested and guns and ammunition were siezed and that 547 kilograms of bango were destroyed.

The statement added that the general department for combating drugs in cooperation with troops from the border guards in the armed forces implemented this campaign in a plan to combating planting drugs all over Egypt's governorates.