HYDERABAD, Aug 6: Traders held a protest on Monday against negligence of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

They said heaps of garbage were lying outside their shops in City Cloth Market, but the corporation was not taking steps to remove the garbage.

The traders burnt heaps of garbage in protest and blocked the main roads leading to the market. They also kept their shops shut for a few hours.

They said thousands of buyers visited the bazaar from the interior of the province during these Eid season, but workers of the HMC had not been sweeping the streets in the market and lifting the garbage for a long time.