[InKunming--Sister Cities]  Customs officials seized 902 gold bars at Bangladesh's second largest airport in southeastern Chittagong city on Tuesday.

"We've seized 902 gold bars weighing about 105 kilograms in polythene bags beneath passengers' seats shortly after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight landed here from Dubai at around 10:00 a.m. local time," an official of the Customs Intelligence Department told Xinhua.

He said the seized gold were worth 450 million taka (5.77 million U.S. dollars).

In this connection, the official who declined to be named said 10 people including some passengers of the flight had been detained.

Seven of the detainees admitted their involvement in the smuggling in primary interrogation, he said.

According to the official, this is the biggest ever haul at the Chittagong airport.

In July 2013, customs officials in the country's premier Shahjalal International Airport in capital Dhaka seized 1,064 gold bars weighing around 124 kilograms from the luggage chamber of a Biman flight.