Video footage of a two-year-old child run over by a van and ignored by passersby in China has ignited public uproar for what some are calling the immorality of modern society. Graphic surveillance video of the incident on October 13 and later aired by a television station shows the girl run over by a van,which drives off leaving her to bleed on a narrow street in Foshan city,in Guandong province. More than a dozen people over the next seven minutes walk or drive past the girl on bicycles and she is run over again by a truck,state media reported Monday. A woman then pulls the girl to the side of the street before her mother,a migrant worker in the city,rushes into the frame. The girl,now hospitalised,is in a coma,Chinas Xinhua news agency reported. The countrys official newspaper China Daily,said the girl had been declared brain dead. Both drivers who ran over the girl have been arrested,Xinhua said,but Internet users have flooded microblogs decrying the apathy of people. Many people in China are hesitant to help people who appear to be in distress for fear that they will be blamed.
