- Workers at Ground Zero unearthed last night a buried
treasure of gold, hidden for weeks under the ruins of the World Trade
Center.
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- As a small army of federal agents with shotguns and
automatic
rifles stood guard, city cops and firefighters packed two Brink's armored
trucks with the lode, sources said.
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- The sources said the gold was found in a delivery tunnel
under 5 World Trade Center.
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- "They are taking gold out of there right now,"
one source said last night. "They've brought in extra
cops."
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- It wasn't immediately clear how much gold was recovered
last night ó or exactly how much was buried under the complex after
the Sept. 11 attacks.
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- The Toronto-based Bank of Nova Scotia has said its vault
under 4 World Trade Center alone held more than $200 million in gold and
silver. Bank spokeswoman Pam Agnew didn't immediately know if any of that
gold was found last night.
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- Other companies are believed to have lost untold gold
and valuables in the disaster.
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- For the last couple of days, construction workers
ó
directed by the feds ó had been clearing a delivery tunnel that
runs under the complex.
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- Officials finally got to the gold through that tunnel
yesterday, after workers hauled out a 10-wheel truck, several crushed cars
and mounds of debris.
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- No bodies were recovered during the operation.
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- As workers inched closer to the gold yesterday,
authorities
began restricting access to the north side of Ground Zero and FBI and
Secret
Service agents joined cops and firefighters at the site.
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- "If I tried to go down there, they would have shot
me," said a construction worker shooed away from the tunnel.
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- A handful of heavy-machinery operators and other workers,
under the watchful eyes of more than 100 armed officers, built and graded
a ramp into the delivery tunnel.
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- A small bulldozer knocked down a wall inside the tunnel,
and a Brink's armored truck drove in just before sunset.
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- It came out about 7 p.m. with the first load of gold,
sources said. A second truck entered the tunnel a short time later and
also was loaded with gold before leaving.
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- A handful of construction workers were held over from
the day shift, which ends at 7 p.m., to help.
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- "They sent most of us on our merry way," said
one worker.
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