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This is the shocking scene which greeted commuters after a body rolled out of a hearse and landed in the middle of the road.

The naked body was only partially covered by a cloth as it laid on the streets, with cars and buses swerving to avoid it.

As the footage shows it was laid in the busy city centre for several minutes after the driver failed to spot they had lost their corpse.

Finally the hearse and two funeral directors arrive to collect person who was spotted in the posh central business district of Cuba's capital, Havana.

A man and a woman got out of the car and were caught on video struggling to manoeuvre it, until eventually, a passer-by steps in to help.

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The sickening scene was filmed by a passer-by with a smartphone.

The video was uploaded online where it attracted a host of comments from users, most of them expressing frustration with the country's communist rulers.

Netizen Kenny Beltran said: "Look at the level of basic services in Cuba, the product of a poor system, unproductive and with no efficiency with a totalitarian, deaf and blind government."

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Another user commented: "This only happens in third world countries"

Vedado, Havana's central business district, is the most modern part of the city; bordering central Havana, it is also one of the city's most desirable addresses.