Kathmandu. People are after money and go to various extents to earn it. Joshua Hutagalung is a man who makes wooden coffins for human corpses. A meteorite came hitting his house in August, which destroyed his roof but made him rich and famous.

According to a report by BBC Indonesia, 34-year-old Joshua was shocked to be called a new millionaire by the British media. The stone is now priced at 757 pounds per gram on an online platform. The stone weighs 1 kg 800 grams and is valued at 1.4 million pounds (more than 200 million Nepali rupees). Joshua conveyed this incident to Dedi Hermawan, a journalist in North Sumatra, who then told BBC Indonesia about it, on Wednesday.

He said that he sold the stone to Jared Collins, a U.S. citizen living in Sumatra, on August 17. Joshua informed that he took Rp 200 million for the stone and Rp 144 million to repair his house from Collins. However, he denied to give any evidence on the same.

According to Joshua, he did not sell the whole stone that fell on his house. The stone that fell in his house weighed 2 kg 200 g, out of which he sold 1 kg 800 g to Collins, and he distributed the remaining pieces amongst the relatives.

He also mentioned that he kept five grams of the stone as a memento. “Five grams is a piece, let it be a memento,” he further added.