Two guns and bullets found in NY flier's luggage

An Egyptian-American man and his wife were detained in Egypt today after customs agents found two guns and 200 bullets in their luggage, airport officials said.

Nabil Abdel-Al and his wife Soad Hassan are being investigated by Egyptian State Security for smuggling weapons without licenses, officials said.

The weapons, hidden in the false soles of running shoes in Abdel-Al’s suitcase, were confiscated at Cairo airport after a flight from New York.

Abdel-Al said one of the guns was his and that he put it in the shoe himself.

He said the other gun belonged to his son, who lives in the United States, and that he did not know who put it in the shoe.

The bullets were internationally banned dumdum bullets, which explode inside the human body, according to officials.

Abdel-Al and his wife flew from New York via Amsterdam on Dutch Airlines KLM.