HYDERABAD, March 24: Strong dust storm, followed by intermittent drizzle, hit the Hyderabad city on Monday evening.

Due to the dust storm, the vehicular traffic came to a halt and the power supply to all the three talukas of Hyderabad was disrupted as transmission lines were broken down at many places. The power supply which was disrupted at 6pm could not be restored till the filing of this report at 9pm.