Construction workers in Belgium stumbled upon a stash of gold believed to be worth more than $10 million during renovation work on a building.<\/p>\n
Police said they were “immediately” contacted by the workers after they discovered “a large quantity of gold” while working on a building in the east Flemish town of Dendermonde. The local police department posted a picture on its Facebook page of around 50 gold bars and piles of gold coins.<\/p>\n
Belgian news outlets reported that bars and coins worth an estimated nine million euros ($10.4 million) were found bricked into the cellar walls during the renovation of a house belonging to a local charity, CAW East-Flanders.<\/p>\n
One worker interviewed by Belgian news outlet VRT said the crew’s “first reaction was actually disbelief, amazement.”<\/p>\n
“We stumbled across it while carrying out groundwork to lay a pipe for the sewerage system,” said the man identified only as Kobe. “We certainly hadn’t expected to find gold.”<\/p>\n
Police said the gold was “inventoried and secured as quickly as possible in a high-security vault belonging to the federal government services.”<\/p>\n
“Apparently, several treasure hunters would like to pay another visit to the site,” read a Facebook post by the police department, which changed its profile picture to a gold coin in light of the find.<\/p>\n
“A golden piece of advice: it is truly pointless,” they said, cautioning the curious to stay away from the fenced-off construction site.<\/p>\n
It was not clear who was considered the legal owner of the trove \u2014 and if anyone would get to keep it.<\/p>\n
“Let us hope that this treasure ends up in the right hands,” said the police post.<\/p>\n
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