Members of National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Customs Intelligence recovered seven gold bars, weighing 816 grams and worth Tk 70 lakh, that were abandoned in a bin at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Friday night, reports UNB.

Airport sources said that acting on a tip-off, a joint team of NSI and Customs officials conducted a drive at the toilet near conveyer belt number one of the airport and seized the gold bars from a bin around 9:15 pm.

The Customs officials believed that the gold bars might have been carried by a passenger of Air Arabia.

However, no one was arrested in this connection.

Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan