STOCKHOLM, March 1: A woman lost her life savings when she forgot $56,000 (500,000 Swedish kronors) on a Swedish streetcar as she was headed to the bank to deposit the money, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The 83-year-old retired seamstress, identified only as Ms Birgitta, had for years kept her savings in a desk in her home in the southwestern city of Gothenburg, but had finally decided it would be safer to put the cash in a bank account, the Aftonbladet daily reported.

On Feb 19, she had filled a paper bag to the brim with 10,000-kronor piles of bank notes before taking a streetcar to the centre of town.

“I was going to the bank to deposit the money,” she told the paper.

But when she got to her stop, she forgot the bag and got off leaving her life savings behind. —AFP
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