Traffic movement on the Dhaka-Munshiganj old road had remained suspended for nine hours from Wednesday morning to evening as three vehicles got stuck in potholes at Bholail and Shashongoan spots under Fatulla upazila of the district.
The police said two of the vehicles went out of order after falling into potholes of the dilapidated road at Bholail and the third at Shashongoan.
Local people of Bholail area said a cement-loaded covered van fell in a deep pothole at dawn and got stuck there, while another vehicle trying to bypass it also fell in the same ditch, resulting in a road blockade.
They said another vehicle met with a similar fate at Shashongaoan, about four kilometres off Bholali.
The blockade created almost a 10km-long tailback stretching from Muktarpur of Munshiganj district to Panchabati of Narayanganj, with commuters suffering severe miseries amid a rainy weather.
The police initially tried to move the inactive vehicles off the road but failed. Then they used a wrecker at around 4:00pm to tow the vehicles away and thus clear the road for traffic movement.
Traffic police inspector Abdus Sattar Khan said, 'This rundown road is a curse for us. We don't have sufficient equipment to tackle such incidents that happen on a regular basis.'
Source : New Age
