3.2kg silver found while digging earth

Huge quantity of silver ornaments weighing around 3.2 kilograms was found when labourers were digging the earth at a house in Nagarkanda upazila of the district on Sunday.

Dangi Union Parishad (UP) Chairman Kazi Abul Kamal said one Chan Mia of Judurdia village engaged four labourers to dig soil to build a sanitary latrine at his house.

At one stage of digging, labourers found the silver ornaments under the soil, he said.