A local government in China has been panned by internet users for making two cleaners spend four hours in the scorching heat searching for a small watch lost by a tourist.
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In early July, a woman from Shenzhen, southern China, took her child to Datong in the northern province of Shanxi by train.
She accidentally put her child’s smartwatch in a rubbish bag near their seat, then left the train, Red Star News reported.
The gadget has a positioning function which showed it was still in the railway station.
The next day, the mother, surnamed Lu, followed the advice of a friend to call the hotline of the Datong municipal government, asking if they could retrieve the watch from the station.
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