BartaBangla Report :: 140 gold bars weighing around 28 kilogrammes (kg) have been recovered from a flight of Regent Airways at the Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong.

Custom officials at the airport found the gold bars lying on the floor of a toilet of the aircraft that landed at the airport from Bangkok around 6:45pm on Thursday. Police also arrested two persons in the connections.

Moshiur Rahman Mondal, assistant commissioner of Customs at the airport said that they found the bars in abandoned condition, after searching the toilet of the plane.

The recovered gold bars are worth Tk 12 crore, he added.