Egyptian security forces discovered dozens of missiles and explosives in a stock room in the Dar al-Salam district of Cairo.

Egyptian security forces discovered dozens of missiles and explosives in a stock room in the Dar al-Salam district of Cairo, local Almisri Alyawm daily quoted security sources as saying on Friday.

The weapons included two rocket-propelled grenade missiles, 10 mortar missiles, 61 anti-aircraft missiles, 28 projectiles and 22 explosives.

The owner of an unlicensed foundry confessed to the police that he had bought the weapons from a scrap stockyard in the Abu Regeila neighborhood, and that they had been discarded by the Armed Forces in Suez.

The police conducted initial investigations and prosecutors ordered the arrest of the stockyard’s owner, whose whereabouts unknown.

In October, security forces raided a flat in the Nasr City neighborhood, killed an alleged terrorism suspect and seized a number of sophisticated weapons.