Belgian student strikes gold worth €9m while digging sewers

Kobe, 18, who made discovery on site of former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, at first thought trove was €1 coins

For a student with a summer job working on a Belgian building site, “money down the drain” has taken on a whole new meaning: excavating the trenches for a sewage system, he stumbled across a hidden trove of gold worth an estimated €9m (£8m).

“We suddenly saw something lying there,” 18-year-old Kobe https://www.hln.be/dendermonde/jobstudent-kobe-18-ontdekte-samen-met-collega-goudschat-van-9-miljoen-euro-in-dendermonde-bleek-toch-iets-meer-dan-we-dachten~acce5a9f/">told the Belgian news network VTM. “At first I thought it was €1 coins.

So we started digging them up.

Then we saw a gold bar.

It turned out to be a bit more than we thought.”