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Lost property

• 05 Dec 2007 •

THE Municipal Lost Property Office in Malaga has recently moved from its office inside the bus station to larger premises in Calle Victoria as a result of the large amount of lost items it has accumulated. According to the town hall, there is a total of 4,099 lost items still within the legal period of storage before being destroyed.

According to the Lost Property Office, nearly 70 DNI (Spanish identity cards) are lost each month and it is the most frequently lost item in Malaga along with wallets containing photographs, followed by women’s purses, football season tickets - which in Malaga cost between 200 and 700 euros - and high school certificates.

DNI cards remain the star item in the office with on average two being brought in a day, allegedly at the moment there are 1,549 and 120 NIE (national tax identification number for foreigners) cards waiting to be collected.

According to the town hall nearly 60 per cent of items handed in are returned to their owners. Many lost objects are handed in by public transport drivers, according to them an average of six items a day are found left on buses – the strangest of which include dentures belonging to a senior citizen and the incident in which five years ago a woman left her baby in a pram.

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