Belgian student strikes gold worth €9m while digging a sewer

Builders renovating a former brewery in Belgium have discovered a stash of gold reportedly worth 9 million euros sealed into the walls of its cellar. The construction workers stumbled across the hidden trove while drilling to lay new sewage pipes in the property in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde earlier this week. The discovery has sparked interest in who might get to keep the hoard – with both the builders and the local charity that owns the site having a chance of claiming it.
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