Cleaners find $1 million in gold bars stashed in airplane bathroom

It wasn't a bomb hidden in the bathroom of a plane travelling to India this week, nor a smoker huddled in the corner, trying to sneak a puff — it was 24 bars of gold worth more than $1.1 million.

Reuters reported cleaners on a Jet Airways flight that arrived in Kolkata, India on Wednesday on a domestic flight from Patna found two containers they originally suspected to be bombs. However, opening them revealed 24 gold bars, each weighing about 1 k.g. and measuring about the size of a smartphone, according to Reuters.

India recently raised the import duty on gold, which has most likely led to an increase in smuggling attempts, reports said.

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The Associated Press reported the plane originally came from Bangkok, though authorities told the Reuters the gold was most likely from Dubai, where the airplane in question travels on its typical route.

Sky News reported authorities haven't arrested anyone in connection with the bathroom gold stash and no one has claimed the valuable bars.

Earlier this month, an Air India hostess and her friend were arrested on suspicion of smuggling 32 kg of gold through three airports, according to the Deccan Chronicle. The pair, named Hiromas Sebastian and Rahila Chellai, are accused of carrying gold repeatedly over several months, though others were mostly likely orchestrating the smuggling, the news outlet reported.