THESSALONIKI, Greece — Police in northern Greece have arrested twoPakistani suspected migrant traffickers accused of holding more than adozen migrants captive and demanding ransoms from their relatives back home.
Ten men – six Pakistanis, three Bangladeshis and an Afghan – were freedduring a police raid Monday on a shed in the countryside west ofThessaloniki where a gang was holding them captive.
Earlier, three other Pakistanis had managed to escape from the shed andcontact police.
Two men from Pakistan, aged 62 and 17, were charged with blackmailing andillegally detaining the migrants, who had paid smugglers to get them intoGreece from Turkey.
Police said Tuesday that the gang claimed the men in captivity owedsmugglers between 1,000 and 2,500 euros, and would be held until theirfamilies paid up. – Agencies