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An 8-year-old girl in East China's Zhejiang Province pressed the red button next to the ATM in a bank and used the intercom to seek assistance from the bank staff after getting separated from her family at night, according to thepaper.cn on Tuesday.

The monitoring center at a local bank in Zhejiang received a call from the self-service bank intercom recently, where staff learned that a young girl had become separated from her family while returning home with her grandfather after a dance class. 

Without mobile phone numbers to contact her family, the bank staff reported the situation to the police and stayed with the girl to comfort her. The police then quickly arrived and escorted the girl home to the address she provided.

According to the report, the girl's mother had taught her to press the red button next to an ATM to reach someone who would help her in times of trouble. When she found herself separated from her grandfather, she used this method to seek help.

Many netizens praised the girl for her intelligence and quick thinking in seeking help using the ATM's red button.

thepaper.cn-Global Times