{"id":44771,"date":"2018-01-16T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44771"},"modified":"2018-01-16T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:35:06","slug":"greek-police-arrested-two-pakistani-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44771","title":{"rendered":"Greek police arrested two Pakistani immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Athens, Jan. 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Greek police in Thessaloniki have arrested two Pakistani nationals suspected of being the ringleaders of a gang that kept 13\u00a0migrants\u00a0locked in a warehouse for ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Their ordeal was uncovered when three of the hostages managed to escape and alert the police.<\/p>\n<p>The migrants \u2014 from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh \u2014 had illegally crossed into Greece from Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>They were led by smugglers to the two suspects on the promise that they would get forged identity documents to travel onwards into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they were imprisoned at the warehouse in the town of Nea Magnisia, near Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n<p>They were forced to hand over their money and their mobile phones, while the suspects allegedly demanded a ransom from relatives to free them.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects, aged 62 and 17, have been charged with abduction, robbery and extortion.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, other suspects belonging to the gang are still at large.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens, Jan. 16 (TNS): Greek police in Thessaloniki have arrested two Pakistani nationals suspected of being the ringleaders of a gang that kept 13\u00a0migrants\u00a0locked in a warehouse for ransom. Their ordeal was uncovered when three of the hostages managed to escape and alert the police. The migrants \u2014 from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh \u2014 had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366,19],"tags":[1367,2232,932],"class_list":["post-44771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athens","category-world","tag-athens","tag-greek-police-arrested-two-pakistani-immigrants","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44773,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771\/revisions\/44773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}