Councillor: Tunnelling at site on Pulau Nangka has reached 90%


Hard at work: Workers boring a hole through the cave.

MALACCA: The much-anticipated “Open Sesame” to the treasure cave on Pulau Nangka is expected to happen tomorrow, revealing the kind of trove and how much of it has been hidden away there over the past hundreds of years.

State executive councillor Datuk Abdul Ghafaar Atan said tunnelling to reach the site had reached 90% and there were just two days left (from yesterday) to get to the location.

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