LARKANA, May 30: The Kambar police have claimed to kill, Dilmurad Shahani, the accused of the murder of Nawabzada Ali Nawaz Chandio, in an encounter in the Khirthar hills on Thursday.

The DSP, Kambar, Azeem Tunio, told journalists that a Kalashnikov was recovered from the possession of Shahani whose body was lying at the mortuary of the Kambar taluka hospital.

However, a sources told this correspondent that the Chandio tribesmen had killed Shahani and later handed his body over to the police.

Other accused of the murder of the Nawabzada had been advised by the elders of the Chandio tribe to leave the area, source added.

The Nawabzada, the younger brother of Nawab Shabbir Ahmed Chandio, the chief of the Chandio tribe, was shot dead with his guard and driver in the Khirthar mountains on May 22.

Shahani and 11 other Chandio tribesmen were nominated in the murder FIR lodged with the Ghaibidero police

PROTEST: A group of primary school headmasters observed a token hunger strike outside the local press club on Friday to protest against transfer of three headmasters.

Talking to journalists, they said that the education department officials, succumbing to the pressure of the PTA, had transferred headmasters of schools in Murad Wahan, New Nazar Mohalla and Khaliq Colony whereas the proposal to transfer 27 other headmasters was in pipeline.