Dhaka-Tangail highway has witnessed a tailback of up to 70 kilometres since early today disrupting Eid holidaymakers' home journey.
Extending to the Bangabandhu Bridge from Chandra intersection in Gazipur since around 3:00am, the tailback was continuing even around 12 noon, according to local media reports.
Children and elderly people are the worst sufferers of the tailback.
Some holiday makers have been quoted by local media as saying that it took them more than six hours to reach Tangail bypass from Chandra intersection.
Tangail's additional superintendent of police Ahaduzzaman Mia said that there are craters on the highway and so the road has come to such a pass with rains.
Senior assistant superintendent of police (ASP) Kamran Hossain, who is in charge of the Bangabandhu Bridge Area, said that they are trying their best to keep the vehicles moving.
"Hopefully, the situation would improve soon," he said.
A total of 30,859 vehicles crossed the Bangabandhu Bridge in the 24 hours since 6am on Thursday.
Massive exodus from Dhaka happens every year two times - one during Eid-ul-Fitr and the other during Eid-ul-Azha.
With Eid-ul-Azha just a few days away, people in droves started leaving the capital on Thursday - the last working day before the Eid - to celebrate it with near and dear ones at their ancestral villages.
According to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), around five to six millions of people leave Dhaka to celebrate each Eid at home.
