A Chinese man brought a city centre to near gridlock by practising yoga in the middle of a busy road.

Traffic was reduced to a crawl after the man got out his mat in the middle of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in the middle of the morning rush hour.

Horns blasted out around the city as the congestion spread to neighbouring roads, reports the Nanfang Daily.

Traffic officers were drafted in to direct vehicles and the man was eventually arrested and taken to a police station.

A police spokesman said: "Luckily he only practised for an hour, otherwise the whole city's transportation system would have ground to a halt."

Leaves on the line... sounds a bit like a yoga position?

It's not a yoga position... this is how the 39 bus left me...

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