{
  "id": 15198709,
  "title": "Armed men abduct 20 police recruits in Mastung",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/armed-men-abduct-20-police-recruits-in-mastung",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-17T12:42:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Times",
    "slug": "daily-times",
    "url": "https://dailytimes.com.pk/1568673/armed-men-abduct-20-police-recruits-in-mastung/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Armed men abducted 20 police recruits in Balochistan’s Mastung district on Saturday. Officials said the trainees were travelling home for the weekend in a passenger van along the Quetta-Karachi Highway. A senior Balochistan government official confirmed the incident to Dawn. According to the official, the recruits were undergoing training at the Kalat Police Training Centre. […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}