Updated On: 15 March, 2019 09:00 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
The incident, which was captured on camera, shows the man approaching the woman who was withdrawing money from an ATM machine in the city of Heyuan

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In a bizarre incident coming to light from Hyuan, China, where a thief managed to gain the Internet's sympathy and praise for returning the money he stole from a woman at an ATM. The thief returned the money to her after checking her bank balance. The incident was captured on surveillance cameras of an ICBC Bank's ATM in China.
According to Shanghaiist, the woman identified as Li was making a withdrawal at the ATM, and a man with propped up behind her brandishing a knife. Scared Li handed over the 2,500 yuan which she had just withdrawn.