HYDERABAD, April 21: Two former employees of the defunct SRTC continued hunger strike unto death for the 12th consecutive day here on Sunday while the token hunger strike by their six colleagues entered the 49th day.

The condition of Haji Ghulam Mohammad Daper and Ghulam Ali Kalhoro, who are observing hunger strike unto death, is fast deteriorating.

Talking to newsmen at the hunger strike camp, the leaders of the Ex-SRTC Employees Action Committee, Syed Irshad Ali Shah and Huzoor Bukhsh Kambrani, said that statements were being published in the newspapers that the Sindh government had released Rs250 million to clear the dues of the former employees but they were not getting the same.

They deplored that the ex-employees had been kept on false hopes since Dec 1999.

They appealed to the government to pay the dues of the former SRTC employees without further delay.