Bengaluru: Traffic came to a standstill along the Silk Board Junction-KR Puram stretch of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) for over four hours on Tuesday evening after a BMTC bus broke down near a busy intersection, severely affecting thousands of office-goers returning home.

Vehicular movement was already slow due to the closure of the service road and ongoing white-topping work on Panathur Road.

The situation worsened around 4.30 pm when a BMTC bus broke down on the down ramp near RMZ Ecospace Tech Park in Bellandur towards Agara, bringing traffic to a standstill.

\"A crane was deployed but it couldn't pull the bus forward because its steering was jammed. After much struggle, it was finally pulled back and moved to the side,\" Karthik Reddy, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), told DH.

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