Dhaka, March 28 -- People have started to head back to their village homes to celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr holidays with their families. The onset of the perennial Eid exodus is marked by the increase in traffic load on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway.

The highway has been busier than usual since Friday morning, the first day of the weekend.

Gazipur Metropolitan Police Assistant Deputy Commissioner (Traffic) Ashok Kumar Pal said that the number of vehicles and homebound travellers using the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway began rising from Thursday afternoon when factories closed for the holidays. The traffic thinned a little in the evening, before picking up again from 8pm to 1:30am.

A visit to the area revealed a marked uptick in the num...