Hong Kong police rescue Thai women locked in flat for refusing to be sex workers after being lured to city with bogus job offers

Two Thai women were lured to Hong Kong in an employment fraud and locked in a Yau Ma Tei flat before officers broke into the premises and rescued them, police revealed on Thursday.

The two victims, aged 38 and 47, who were employed as masseurs in the job scam, were locked up after they refused to be sex workers, according to a source familiar with the case.