Libyan soldiers have found former autocratic ruler Muammar Gaddafi's secret cache of gold, dollars and euros buried in a garden on the outskirts of Sirte.

According to a TV report showed on a Doha based satellite news channel Al-Libya, the cache was found in a garden in Gaddafi's stronghold Zanaki Kamish, containing the equivalent of around one million euros in the local dinar currency and a bag full of euro bank notes and gold ingot.

"We found a safe so full of money and gold that four men like us can't lift it," a soldier was reported to have said, while another added, "this is Gaddafi's mafia money. For this money he killed thousands of Libyans," OneIndia News reports.