Emergency landing in KLIA after package found in plane’s toilet… but it’s just gold bars


The three gold bars found.

KUALA LUMPUR: An Indian budget airline flight from Singapore carrying 145 people was forced to make an emergency landing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at 7.30am Thursday, after a crew member found a package in the plane's toilet.

However, a Fire and Rescue team, which inspected the package after the IndiGo aircraft landed, found that it contained just three gold bars, weighing less than 1kg.

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