Egyptians foil arms smugglers

Egyptian security forces have seized dozens of heavy weapons allegedly bound for the Sinai Peninsula to stir up trouble ahead of presidential elections in two weeks, police said.

Authorities uncovered 40 surface-to-surface missiles, 17 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and around 10,000 artillery shells in three vehicles near the resort city of Marsa Matrouh, 270 miles north west of Cairo.

Three Egyptian Bedouin smugglers arrested claimed the weapons were to use “against army and police forces securing the borders to create chaos before presidential elections”.