A 10-YEAR-OLD girl is being praised for showing great maturity by staying calm during an unsuccessful burglary attempt at her house in Baoshan District.

In a program aired on Shanghai Television, the girl said she was on the third floor of her villa, while her grandmother was sleeping in her room on the second floor. When she walked out of her room around 9pm, a man suddenly appeared and put a knife on her throat and told her to stay still.

“He asked me where my mother had kept the jewelries and the password of my father’s locker,” the girl said.