Dhaka, Nov. 18 -- The dealers appeared unprepared for the huge crowds as scuffles, disorder and irregularities marred the sale at different points.

bdnews24.com visited Kachukhet, Mirpur-10 and Khamarbari intersection of Farmgate where people scrambled for onion when the TCB dealers arrived with loaded trucks.

Most disorder occurred at Kachukhet where many customers alleged they failed to get any onion after waiting in long queues for hours from as early as 9am.

But some were still buying onion at noon by breaking the queues and getting into the disorderly crowd created at the front of the lines.

Influential people of the neighbourhood and some policemen were buying onion from the sides of the truck, skipping the long queues, and more...