Consumers after being hit hard with the shortage of petrol have heaved a sigh of relief with the arrival of petrol. With the information that tanker was entering the district with petrol, the motorcyclists thronged the petrol pump on early today, forming a line of about a kilometer.

A motorcyclist got five liters of petrol after waiting for almost five hours. "I lined up at 3 am and got five liters of petrol only at 8 am," said local Santosh Shrestha.
Traffic police had been deployed to manage the line.

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Photos by Girija Baskota