With the Dasara festivities concluding, thousands of people in hundreds of vehicles, including private cars, cabs and buses returning from their native places, flooded the highways leading to Hyderabad, causing massive traffic jams on Sunday and Monday.

As schools and colleges reopened, the Hyderabad–Vijayawada National Highway witnessed severe congestion, especially near Choutuppal, where traffic stretched for several kilometres and moved at a snail’s pace till Monday

morning.

Local police worked continuously to regulate the flow of vehicles.

A similar situation prevailed on the Warangal–Hyderabad highway, with long queues of vehicles near Bibinagar and the Gudur toll plaza, where traffic piled up for several kilometres.

Meanwhile, heavy rush was also reported at the LB Nagar metro s

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