Traffic jams, long queues mark first hour of lockdown in Hyderabad

People made a beeline right from 6 am at supermarkets, medical shops, fruit bandis and pan shops for various groceries, medicines and cigarettes

Hyderabad: Hurried efforts to stock essentials saw quite a few traffic jams and long queues in the city early on Wednesday, the first day of the 10-day lockdown.

People made a beeline right from 6 am at supermarkets, medical shops, fruit bandis and pan shops for various groceries, medicines and cigarettes before the lockdown came into being from 10 am

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Pan shops made a quick buck as cigarettes were sold for Rs. 20 extra per pack. Kirana shops and other local grocery stores had their shutters half closed and there were long queues outside the shops. Chicken and mutton shops too saw long queues before the curfew time.

Police personnel were well equipped to instantly enforce the lockdown, with barricades set up on main roads. In the first one hour of the lockdown, with many people still on the roads, the barricades led to some traffic jams as people tried to rush back home before 10 am.

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