This story is from March 18, 2019

Jaipur: Chinese tourist gets lost, reunited through app

A language translation app came handy for a Chinese tourist who had lost her way to her hotel in narrow lanes of Jaipur’s old city area on Saturday.
Jaipur: Chinese tourist gets lost, reunited through app
Liu Xi (centre) with the police
JAIPUR: A language translation app came handy for a Chinese tourist who had lost her way to her hotel in narrow lanes of Jaipur’s old city area on Saturday.
Liu Xi (22) narrated her ordeal to three youngsters on Sunday and sought their help. The youths used their mobile apps to translate Mandarin into English and alerted the cops too. Liu was reported missing by Manak Chowk police station on Saturday from Bapu Bazar area, by her friends.

“She was on a solo trip to India where a few days ago, she met other Chinese travellers in Jaipur. She went shopping near Bapu Bazar when her mobile phone stopped working,” said Additional DCP (North) Dharmendra Sagar. A shopkeeper told Liu to go to take her mobile to Raisar Plaza for repair. But unable to converse in English, she lost her way back to the hotel. “She went to Sindhi Camp area with the help of a local person on Saturday. She spent a night at a hotel there and left on Sunday morning,” the official said. She went back to Bapu Bazar to get her phone repaired but in vain. Frustrated, she broke down and sought help from locals when she came in contact with people at a tea shop. “Some people at the tea shop used a mobile-based application to translate the language and alerted the cops. Meanwhile, Kotwali police station which was already on the alert spotted her in the market and brought her to the police station for verification,” an official said.
After police verified her identity, the cops reunited Liu with her friends. “When police registered a missing person report (MPR), Kotwali police station searched all CCTVs and found that she was last seen at a saree shop in Bapu Bazar, so we knew that she was in the city and launched a search operation,” an official said.
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