QUETTA, April 28: Non-bailable arrest warrants against former home minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri in a treason case were issued mistakenly, the Balochistan police chief said on Wednesday.

Inspector-General of Police Dr Shoaib Suddle said in reply to a question at a press conference that police officials during the investigation of an old case registered against some other man named Sanaullah for delivering an anti-government speech mistakenly added Zehri to the name.

"It is the mistake of investigation officer," he said and added that an inquiry was in progress in this connection.

SIX KILLED: At least six people, including a woman and two children, were killed and 36 injured, seven of them seriously, when a bus carrying a marriage party fell into a roadside ditch near Usta Mohammad on Wednesday.

The bus was going to Usta Mohammad from Nushki Jadeed village when it fell into a ditch near Balan Shah. Bodies and the injured were taken to the Usta Mohammad civil hospital. The doctors admitted 28 people to the hospital.

Seven people were brought to the provincial capital as their condition was serious. "The tie-rod of the bus broke when it was negotiating a sharp turn," police officials told this correspondent.

Mohammad Azam (28), Farzana Bibi (26), Mohammad Iqbal (18), Fazalur Rehman (13), Mohammad Alam (8) and Zahoor Ahmed (6) were killed. Usta Mohammad police have registered a case against the driver, who fled.