Eleven missiles were found on the coast of the town of Salloum on the Egypt-Libya border by the Matrouh Security Department on Wednesday.
The preliminary investigation conducted by police at the Matrouh Security Directorate revealed that a fishing boat had smuggled large quantities of arms and ammunition from Libya to Egypt.
The weapons were then buried on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, 10 km to the east of Salloum.
The Criminal Investigation Department had been assigned the task of finding the weapons and conducting a preliminary investigation.
They were discovered when a recently drilled area on the Salloum coast was reported to the police. The CID then found 11 city-transit missiles inside the area.
The missiles were seized and are in the custody of the police. The case has been taken to prosecution for further investigation.
Also on Wednesday, police in Minya in Upper Egypt seized 26 automatic weapons, nine of which were made in Israel, and thousands of bullets in a car loaded with watermelons traveling on the Western Desert road.
Edited translation from MENA
