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Elderly woman finds stash of cash in pieces
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-01-21 09:12

An 89-year-old woman was upset recently to find a stash of bills she hid away in a sundries cabinet were chewed up by mice.

The 3,100 yuan ($460) in bank notes were bitten up after Zhou left them in the cabinet inside her home in Foshan's Shunde district, Guangdong province.

A local branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China agreed to exchange about 2,000 yuan of the incomplete notes for her but the rest are in unrecognizable pieces.

Zhou said the banknotes were her life savings.