Mangaluru: City police on Monday seized as many as eight petrol bombs stashed in the premises of telephone exchange building here at Ganjinata in the outskirts of the city.

Few persons, who saw the petrol bombs including two machetes on Monday night, informed the Bajpe police. Meanwhile, Mangaluru City police commissioner, S. Murugan, also paid a visit to the spot and issued directions to the police to investigate the matter.