Massage parlor

A 54-year-old father from Thessaloniki in northern Greece is being investigated after his arrest on Monday for reportedly taking his 9-year-old daughter on visits to brothels posing as massage parlors.

A white gunman was charged on March 17 with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Eight people, including at least six Asian women, have been killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia.

Police said four people were killed at a massage parlour in a suburb north of Atlanta, and four more at two spas in the city itself.

South Korea later confirmed that four of the victims were of Korean descent.

The European Union's law enforcement agency Monday said 107 people have been arrested as part of a Europe-wide investigation into human trafficking and sexual exploitation, quoted by Daily Sabah.

It was four months ago when a massage parlor and several other addresses in Ankara were raided by police, rescuing minors who had been forced into prostitution. 

Greek police have arrested the owner of a massage parlour in the city of Patra for using his business as a front for illicit sexual services. A 37-year-old female Latvian woman, who was employed as a professional masseuse at the establishment, would offer sexual services to clients for extra money, a commission of which went to the owner.

At least 116 people were killed on June 30 when an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a major city shortly after take-off and exploded in a fireball, officials said.

Buildings were left in ruins and cars reduced to flaming wrecks when the Hercules C-130 came down in a residential area of Medan, a city of two million on the island of Sumatra.