KARACHI, Aug 20: The reopening of the Sindh Medical College and the Dow Medical College has been deferred to Thursday, officials said on Monday. It is learnt that the authorities had first decided to continue teaching activities at the two medical colleges despite tension on the campuses following a clash between two rival student groups that left one student of the JPMC’s school of physiotherapy dead.

The SMC administration had been facing resistance in its attempt to get the boys’ hostel vacated. However, the administration said on Monday it had now got the hostel vacated.

The DMC has already got its boys’ hostel and the doctors’ mess vacated.

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