A mother in Telangana rode 1,400km on a two-wheeler to bring home her teenage son who was stuck in the lockdown in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

Razia Begum, 48, who had lost her husband 15 years ago, returned with son Nizamuddin on Wednesday evening after a three-day journey.

“I packed rotis and they kept me going. It was fearsome in the nights with no traffic or people on roads,” she said on Thursday.

But the determination to bring back her son overtook all her fears, said Razia, the headmistress of a government school in Bodhan town in Nizamabad district, 200km from here.

Nizamuddin, 19, who is preparing for his MBBS entrance exam, had gone to Rahamatabad in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh on March 12 with a friend. When the lockdown was imposed from the midnight of March 24, with just four hours’ notice, he got stuck there and could not return home to his mother and older brother.

Anguished to hear that he was desperate to return, Razia decided to fetch him herself. She did not send her elder son, an engineering graduate, because she thought police might detain him.

She set out on Monday morning, armed with local police permission. Stopping only for petrol or water, the mother reached Nellore on Tuesday afternoon and started back with her son the same day.