The long Deepavali weekend started yesterday (21 October), with huge crowds of people being seen in a circulating video being squeezed together while trying to enter Johor Bahru through the Causeway.
There was mayhem all around as people were heard screaming in the crowds, while a customs officer struggled to maintain order.
In the video circulating online that was shared last night at about 10.40pm, a huge crowd was seen stuck at the bottom of an escalator because there were too many people.
The travellers were seen jostling and pushing and shoving each other and they tried to force their way through the crowd and go up the escalator into the main hall.
Customs officers were on site to maintain order but their commands were silenced by the noises of the crowd, who were shouting at each other to stop pushing.
And the mayhem didn’t stop there, as once the travelers got out of the pushing and shoving crowd at the bottom of the escalator, they were greeted with another crowd at the main hall queuing to get through the customs.