Egyptian paintings are stolen

A Van Gogh painting from Egypt goes missing informed the culture minister from Egypt. Van Gogh painting is worth $50 million and is still missing the theft is under investigation. Van Gogh painting was being displayed in the Cairo museum to show the richness of the painting of Egypt. Van Gogh has been admired with different names like Poppy flowers, Vase and flowers.
The painting went missing and the steal was difficult to trace as the cameras,alarms in the museum was not working. The painting was being beautifully cut from the frame on the Saturday and came into light after a while. The details about the missing painting report was given by Farouk Hosni to the BBC world.According to Farouk two persons were arrested from the Cairo airport regarding the case. The two persons arrested were Italian nationals and were being arrested from the airport when police suspected them. At last the two people had a small canvas which was not related to the painting and were released.
Farouk said on Saturday just 10 people visited the Cairo museum whose name is Mahmoud Khalil museum. The same painting was being stolen last time during the year 1978 and was being recovered from Kuwait after a decade. The painting is being painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1887 three years before he committed suicide.


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