As countrywide lockdown has been relaxed for holidaymaking during Eid-ul-Azha, national highways are jammed with vehicles carrying homebound people.
A long tailback is created near the Bangabandhu bridge on the Dhaka-Tangail highway that connects the northern region.
Elsewhere, vehicles are moving slowly, according to updates till Saturday afternoon.
The heavy traffic on the highway enhanced the suffering of the passengers bound for their homes to spend Eid holidays with their near and dear ones, said on-duty police personnel.
An almost 30-kilometre-tailback was there in the area between Bangabandhu Bridge and Ashekpur Bypass in Tangail Sadar.
“The vehicles are running at a snail’s pace due to excessive number and also ongoing renovation work of the road especially on the western side of the Bangabandhu Bridge up to Sirajganj bypass,” Jane Alam Bhiyan, a traffic inspector in Tangail told The Financial Express.
However, despite the high traffic pressure, there is no such congestion reported on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway.
On Thursday, the government allowed all types of public transports to operate across the country so that people can go home to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest Muslim religious festival.