China Scene: East

Police find and return 77-year-old woman home

A family in Jinan, Shandong province, was grateful to some police officers who found their lost elderly mother and took her home. But they were surprised when the officers refused the promised 10,000-yuan reward.

Police saw the senile woman near a tea market in the city's Huaiyin district. After the woman, 77, told police her name, they found her address on a computer network and took her home.