DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of Police detained four people with six cocktails and two petrol bombs from Shahbagh area of the city on Thursday night.

The identities of the detainees could not be known immediately.

DB sources said that a team of DB police conducted a drive in the area and held them with the explosives around 10:00pm.

They were being interrogated under DB custody, sources added.

DMP Media Center Deputy-Police Commissioner Masudur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews.

BDST: 2311 HRS, FEB 12, 2015