Three students held in ‘terror plot’ emergency

THREE medical students were detained yesterday and a major US road was shut for over 12 hours after a woman overheard a suspected terror plot being discussed.

Police closed Alligator Alley, an interstate highway in south Florida, and blew up a suspect package as explosives experts investigated two cars in which the men were travelling.

A law enforcement official in Washington said that authorities had not found a terrorist connection and that the three men appeared to be medical students going to a medical conference in Miami.