QUETTA, May 10: The Balochistan High Court took suo motu notice on Tuesday of burning of 15 people in Sibi when a bus was set on fire last month and killing of six people in Quetta on May 6.

The court issued notices to deputy attorney general, Balochistan’s advocate general, provincial home secretary, provincial police officer, Quetta CCPO, DPO Sibi and editors of four newspapers.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Qazi Faez Issa and Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel said the registrar had put up notes along with news reports on the death of 15 people, including women and children, in Sibi and a number of young men playing football near Quetta’s Kirani road. The reports said that Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, an organisation banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, claimed responsibility for shooting and killing people in Quetta.