Chinese police officers received widespread online acclaim for using their bare hands to search for a lost phone in sand dunes. The tourist expressed gratitude, calling China the safest country.

Chinese police officers dug through sand with their bare hands to search for a Taiwan tourist’s lost phone, winning widespread online applause. Having successfully retrieved her phone, the woman presented her Taiwan resident travel permit in front of the camera and exclaimed “We, China is the safest country in the world”. The woman, surnamed Tsao, lost her phone around 11pm in the Singing Sand Dunes tourist site in Dunhuang, northwestern China’s Gansu province, on May 15. The Singing Sand Dunes...