Video footage of a two-year-old girl being run over by a van and ignored by passers-by in China has sparked outrage after being posted online.
The graphic surveillance video of the incident in Foshan city, Guandong province, shows the girl run over by a van, which then drives off leaving her bleeding on a narrow street.
More than a dozen people walk or drive past the critically injured girl, named Yueyue, without going to her aid before she is run over by a second truck.
Unaware: Video footage shows the little girl crossing the road at Guangfo Hardware Market, without spotting the van approaching
Injuries: The girl is hit by the van, which fails to stop leaving her lying in the road
A woman - the 19th person to pass the girl - pulls her to the side of the street before her mother, a migrant worker in the city, rushes into the picture.
The girl, named online as Yue Yuem, is in a coma in hospital according to Xinhua news agency following the incident on October 13.
China Daily, the country's official English-language newspaper, said she had been declared 'brain dead' and could die at any time.
Callous: Dozens of people then drive or walk past the critically injured child without stopping to help her
Horrific: Yue Yuem lies critically injured on the floor after she was run over by a second van in Foshan city, Guangdong, China
Child victim: Yuyue is held by her mother. Her older brother is also pictured
Both drivers who ran her over have been arrested, but internet users have flooded microblogs over the apathy of the people who left her to die.
China's economic boom and the growing disparity between the rich and poor have made changing social values a contentious topic, with some lamenting what they see as materialism replacing morals.
Yueyue's father Wang told Chinese television: 'Yueyue is so lovely. If I quarrelled with her mother and if her mother cried, she would tell us not to cry, she always tried to amuse us.
'I just hope my child will wake up and call me Dad again.'
On China's microblog service Sina Weibo, one user called the incident 'the shame of the Chinese people'.
Another user, under the name Xiaozhong001, wrote: 'Really, what is up with our society? I saw this and my heart went cold.
'Everyone needs to do some soul-searching about ending this kind of indifference.'
Many people in China are hesitant to help people who appear to be in distress over fears they will be blamed.
High-profile law suits have ended with good Samaritans ordered to pay hefty fines to individuals they sought to help.
Apathy: This motorcyclist just swerved around the crumpled girl and carried on his way
Concern: Finally a woman goes to the little girl's aid and tries to drag her out of the road as her mother arrives on the scene
Fighting for life: Yueyue is in a critical condition in intensive care after being run over twice
Distraught: The girl's parents wait anxiously for news in the hospital, where she is in a coma
Coma: The girl, named online as Yue Yuem, is treated in hospital but is unlikely to survive
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