{"id":646862,"date":"2019-06-28T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":" <br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/28125804-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Greek police\" title=\"Greek police\"\/><\/div><p>The Greek Police said on Friday they arrested"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:22:13","slug":"greek-police-nab-smuggler-with-13-migrants-in-fake-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/greek-police-nab-smuggler-with-13-migrants-in-fake-ambulance\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Police nab smuggler with 13 migrants in fake ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28125804-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Greek police\" title=\"Greek police\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Greek Police said on Friday they arrested a driver transporting 13 migrants crammed into a fake ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old driver led Police on a wild chase near Thessaloniki, with blue lights flashing on both the ambulance, painted to appear like a medical vehicle and the pursuing patrol cars.<\/p>\n<p>Police moved to intercept the van following a call about a strange ambulance on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Greece intercepts smugglers of migrants on a nearly daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>The people continue arriving by land and sea from Turkey with the hope that they will eventually reach wealthy European countries.<\/p>\n<p>They often pay huge amounts of money to smugglers for an uncertain trip and even risk their lives to achieve the goal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek Police said on Friday they arrested a driver transporting 13 migrants crammed into a fake ambulance. 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Police moved to intercept the van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2594,759,2591,152,2592,210,2593],"class_list":["post-646862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-ambulance","tag-fake","tag-greek","tag-migrants","tag-nab","tag-police","tag-smuggler"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Greek Police nab smuggler with 13 migrants in fake ambulance - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/greek-police-nab-smuggler-with-13-migrants-in-fake-ambulance\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Greek Police nab smuggler with 13 migrants in fake ambulance - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Greek Police said on Friday they arrested a driver transporting 13 migrants crammed into a fake ambulance. 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