KARACHI, June 19: Two more protesting students, including a girl student, of the Sindh Medical College, were shifted from their hunger strike camp to hospital for emergency treatment on Thursday.

About 50 students, whose admissions have been disputed by the college authorities and other government agencies after their three-to-five years of uninterrupted education and examinations, went on hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club on Monday at 4pm.

“We took the two students to hospital when they fainted due to prolonged fasting in this hot and humid weather,” said one of the protesting students at the camp.

In all, four students have fainted since Tuesday afternoon.

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