Hundreds of people have flocked to a creek in an overcrowded squatters’ area in Barangay Del Monte in Quezon City after some residents found gold nuggets, witnesses said yesterday.

A barangay captain said it was a puzzle as to how the nuggets got into the trash-strewn and heavily silted channel.

"It is a puzzle. All we got from this before was trash," he said.

Alfredo Gallo, 15, found a "nugget" of gold after scouring the waterway under the bridge near Feliz street in West Riverside on Friday. His father sold the gold to a pawnshop for P30,000 and bought a television set and a bicycle.

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