3 foreigners held in Sibi

Published May 31, 2009

QUETTA, May 30 Three foreigners going to Peshawar in a bus have been arrested in Sibi.

Sources said two of them hailed from Somalia and the third one was identified as an Afghan national.

Law-enforcement personnel intercepted the bus in Sibi on Friday night. They were travelling without valid documents, said the sources. The passport of one Somali national expired in August last year while the Afghan national possessed no documents.—Staff Correspondent

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