KARACHI, May 27: A small boy died and three others were injured when a speeding passenger coach knocked them down near old Sabzimandi on Monday night.

The police said a Shiraz Coach knocked down members of a family while they were walking across the main University Road near Shah Zhob hotel.

Muzammil, 2 1/2, died on the spot. Imran, 10, Imtiaz, 25, and Mohammed Akram, 22, were injured. The injured were admitted to the JPMC.

The police claimed to have arrested the coach driver, Noorul Islam, and impounded the vehicle.

Another young man died in a road accident in Clifton.

The police said that Adil, 17, conductor of Khan Coach (PE-3054), fell from the passenger coach after a jerk and came under the rear wheels of the vehicle.

Tanzanian held: Two Tanzanian nationals, travelling on forged passports, were held at Karachi airport for their alleged links to a suspected gang of international terrorists.

Sources in the FIA Immigration said two foreigners, travelling on Tanzanian passports, were about to leave for Iran, and as they reported to an immigration counter, the officials found that the photographs, affixed on the passports of the two passengers, were replaced. The immigration staff disallowed them to proceed to Iran and detained them for questioning.

The two Tanzanians, identified as Saiyeed Ahmed bin Abdollah and Faried Ramadhani, failed to satisfy the immigration staff about the purpose of their visit to Pakistan and about their departure to Iran, the sources added.

They said the immigration cell seized their travel documents and handed them over to the FIA Passport Cell with a request to hold a thorough inquiry whether the suspected foreigners had any links with an international terrorist organization.

The two suspects had been kept at an unknown place where, the sources said, adding they were being grilled by a joint interrogation team of the FIA and other law-enforcement agencies. The sources said during investigation the links of the suspects with any terrorists group had not been established.