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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Traffic chaos seen as schools reopen today SEC issues safety guidelines DOHA: Schools across Qatar guardian, address and name of are reopening today and may the supervisor. cause traffic jams on busy They should also be given routes. training on how to board the bus The Supreme Education while leaving the school. Around Council (SEC) has issued a cir- 1,900 buses have been allotted to cular to schools with directions Independent Schools, out of which about management of school 450 buses are new. transport and student safety. Reopening of schools will also The SEC, in a circular issued see additional burden to the city’s recently, has asked Independent traffic system. It also marks the schools to send SMS to the par- end of summer vacations which ents about opening and closing means more office-goers will be time of schools so that they can on the roads from this week. A Yemeni man walks amid debris following air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Sana’a yesterday. pick students on time on the Commuters will have to brace first day. for traffic congestions as there It will be a short day for stu- will be more buses on the roads.