The footage showed the van hitting the little 2-year-old girl, pausing briefly while she was under the vehicle and then driving off, running over her legs. It then showed about a dozen passers-by, including cyclists, a motorcyclist and a woman and child, noticing the little girl lying injured in the street but walking on. After she was hit by the second vehicle, a rubbish collector spotted the little girl and moved her to the kerb, then began looking for her mother. The child, Yue Yue, was taken to hospital for emergency surgery but pronounced brain dead on Sunday.
The drivers of both vehicles have now been arrested, the newspaper said, but the incident has also triggered outcry among Chinese citizens. It provoked a storm of comment on microblogging site Weibo. "Even pigs and dogs are better than they are!" said one angry contributor about the passers-by. "In China, there's no bottom line for human ethics anymore! China is 'smashing' new records again and again!" commented another.
Others were more reflective. "Now people ignore everything other than money. This society is lacking people with a conscience badly." Some said they understood the dilemma for the passers-by - that if they helped out they might incur costs or be blamed for the accident. BBC
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