{
  "id": 446432,
  "title": "[UPDATED] From online friends to hostages: How kidnapping gang traps foreigners",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/updated-from-online-friends-to-hostages-how-kidnapping-gang-traps",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-10T06:17:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/08/1508090/updated-online-friends-hostages-how-kidnapping-gang-traps-foreigners"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "KUALA LUMPUR: Lucrative job offers, holidays, dates and social companionship were among the bait used by a kidnap-for-ransom syndicate to lure foreigners into its trap.",
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "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."
}