Archive for Major General Khaled Ghoraba

Interior Ministry reshuffles internal leadership

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November 12th, 2012

Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal Eddin approved a reshuffle involving several ministry leaders, including deputies, security directorate heads and criminal investigation departments, according to a statement Monday from Major General Hani Abdel Lateef.

Lateef, who is head of the ministry’s general administration of information and relations, said the reshuffle is meant to improve security forces’ performance and efficiency in meeting citizens’ demands.

In the statement, Abdel Lateef said the reshuffle also included the establishment of new administrations and sectors, such as a human rights sector and a social administration.

The reshuffle saw Major General Khaled Ghoraba appointed as the minister’s deputy for the social security sector. Ghoraba was previously the Alexandria security chief.

Activists claim Ghoraba was in charge of suppressing protests in Mahalla al-Kobra in 2008 and other protests prior to the 2011 revolution. He was also Alexandria’s police chief when Khaled Saeed was killed.

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Mother and two daughters killed in Alexandria building collapse

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July 24th, 2012

 

A mother and her two daughters were killed on Monday evening as a one-story building collapsed in the Amreya area of Alexandria.

Investigators under the supervision of Major General Khaled Ghoraba, the Alexandria security chief, said that only a woman and her two daughters were living inside the house.

Civil Protection Department recovered two bodies and are still looking for the third under the rubble.

Last week, an 11-story apartment building collapsed in the working-class neighborhood of Gomrok in Alexandria. The collapse caused three neighboring buildings to also fall in, claiming a total of 19 lives.

Building collapses are not uncommon in the country, where building violations or bad maintenance have caused disasters over the years in informal settlements, poor neighborhoods and rural areas.

In February this year, 12 died in Damietta when an old residential building housing a Wasat Party office collapsed. At least five died in Kafr al-Dawar, Beheira, in June, when a four-story building fell.

At least 11 people were killed in Alexandria in 2008 when a four-story building collapsed as residents slept.

The 2008 incident in Alexandria came a month after a massive rock slide buried a neighborhood at the foot of a cliff in Cairo, killing more than 100 people.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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Fire at Alexandria company leaves worker dead

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April 25th, 2012

A maintenance worker at Abu Qir Company for Fertilizers in Alexandria died after a fire broke out at the company due to a gas leak.

Major General Khaled Ghoraba, Alexandria’s security chief, was notified about the death of the worker, 38-year-old Hany Abdel Fattah Ahmed.

Medical examiners found burns on Abdel Fattah’s chest.

Alaa Hassan, 30, a technician in the company, said the gas leaked and a fire broke out while Ahmed had been doing maintenance work on the gas pipes.

Ahmed’s body was transferred to the morgue and a police report was filed. Prosecutors will conduct investigations.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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