At least 16 people including seven children were killed and 18 others injured as a passenger bus was set ablaze by unknown miscreants in the wee hours of Tuesday in Pakistan's southwestern city of Sibi, reported local English TV channel Express.
According to the local media reports, the disaster took place at about 1:00 am local time when a passenger coach carrying about 40 people was
torched by unknown people near a gas station on the national highway in Sibi while on its way from Peshawar to Quetta, capital city of Balochistan province.
Rescue team rushed to the site shortly after the incident was reported and all the injured people have been shifted to the nearby hospital in the city, which is about 120 kilometers southeast of Quetta.