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Cleaners flush out gold hoard in toilets

THAILAND: Cleaners found a stash of 24 gold bars worth more than $1.1m (€818,000) hidden in an aeroplane lavatory after a flight from Bangkok arrived in eastern India, officials said yesterday.

The Jet Airways plane had landed in Kolkata and was being cleaned before a scheduled flight to Patna when the cleaners found two bags with the gold stashed inside, according to customs official Mona Priyadarshini.