Kishoreganj: Police in a drive seized 16 Molotov cocktails from a bottle gourd field at Char Palash village in Pakundia of Kishoreganj early Saturday.

Tipped off, a team of police conducted the drive in the area at about 3:00am and recovered 16 bombs, each consisting of a bottle filled with petrol with a piece of cloth in the end, in an abandoned condition, said Jakir Rabbani, Pakundia police officer in-charge. 

However, no one was detained in this connection.

Meanwhile, miscreants set a microbus afire at Chilakara village in the same upazila early Saturday, the 40th day of the blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-Party Alliance.

Witnesses said the saboteurs set the microbus ablaze at about 2:30am.

Later local people doused the flame.

However, no casualty was reported in the incident.