What happened: Hundreds of fishermen, women and children in the East Godavari district of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh spent the weekend combing through the local beach for literal gold. In the aftermath of cyclone Nivar, a super storm that killed five people, uprooted trees and flooded buildings, local fishermen reportedly found tiny gold beads all over the beach.
Locals believed that these gold beads were the remnants of lost temples that were submerged under the sea, which washed up on the shore following the cyclone.
The Gold Rush !! Sea ‘spewing’ yellow metal news makes people rush to Uppada beach of East Godavari. hundreds throng to the beach to test their luck.#AndhraPradesh pic.twitter.com/xIkSzULbFk
— Ashish (@KP_Aashish) November 28, 2020