MUMBAI - INDIAN labourers have unearthed gold bars from a British cargo ship that blew up killing hundreds of people while docked in Mumbai during World War II, a report said on Tuesday.
The Mumbai Mirror newspaper said that workers discovered gold bars from the SS Fort Stikine late on Monday while digging a new dock in the port city. Further dredging would now be conducted to see if more can be found, it added.
Preliminary examinations suggested that the gold - in two bars weighing 100 grams and 50 grams (three and a half ounces and one and three quarter ounces) - was from the stricken ship, a senior police officer was quoted as saying.
'The contractors have told us about having found gold and the bars belonging to the lot that had sunk with (the) Fort Stikine,' said senior officer Quaisar Khalid.
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