Rs700,000 gold seized at airport

Airport officials last Thursday seized a piece of gold weighing around 145 grams from a female passenger at the Tiruchirappalli airport.

The gold piece is worth Rs774,590 (Dh34,939).

The officials extracted the yellow metal from 169 grams of paste-like materials concealed in the rectum of a female passenger. “The female passenger arrived at Tiruchirappalli airport from Kualalumpur by Air Asia flight no-AK-23 on November 15,” read a statement.