LARKANA, June 7: Four relatives of the accused of murder of Nawabzada Ali Nawaz Chandio, were handed over to the local Edhi Centre after being released from the psychiatry ward of the Chandka Medical College Hospital, the police said on Saturday.

The Chandio tribesmen, Mohammed Azam, Ali Bakhsh, Panjal and Sabhago were handed over to the Edhi Centre after the residents of their village refused to allow them to live in their villages and their Pir (spiritual master) declined to give shelter to them.

The four tribesmen were earlier kept at the psychiatry ward of the CMCH and later on discharged for they were not the patients of psychiatry.

After leaving the hospital, they were sent to their villages in the Ghaibidero area but the villagers, apparently fearing a backlash from the elders of the Chandio tribe, refused to allow them to live there, police sources said.

Meanwhile, it was learnt on good authority that Ali Bakhsh Shahani, the father of deceased Dilmurad, had lodged an FIR with the Ghaibidero police against eight unidentified men for killing his son.

The Nawabzada, the brother of the chief of the Chandio tribe, was shot dead with his guard and driver in a clash over a dispute of hunting ibex, a protected animal, in the Khirther mountains on May 22.

One of his alleged killer was also killed in the clash end another was later shot dead allegedly by the Chandio tribesmen.