China officials order cleaners to sift through tonnes of rubbish for lost watch, spark outrage
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.
It took the two cleaning workers four hours to sift through piles of rubbish before they found the watch. Photo: QQ.com
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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