India, Feb. 5 -- One of the longest traffic gridlocks in the history of the 94.5 kilometres-long Mumbai-Pune Expressway stretched into its second day on Wednesday, leaving thousands of commuters stranded for nearly 27 hours without access to toilets, drinking water or food after a gas tanker overturned near the Adoshi tunnel on Tuesday evening about 90 kilometres from Mumbai. The overturned gas tanker was finally emptied and moved off the road late on Wednesday night.

Traffic flow gradually started on the Mumbai-bound carriageway around midnight. Traffic began to pile up around 5:15 pm on Tuesday after a tanker that was going from Kochi to Surat, carrying highly flammable propylene gas, overturned on the Mumbai-bound lane near village Ad...