Shocking footage has emerged showing a bus driver throwing a passenger off his bus before kicking him in the stomach.

A man can be heard angrily shouting, 'Get off!' before a violent struggle breaks out between the driver and the young man in the clip, recorded by a fellow passenger on the Stagecoach bus service in Anfield, Liverpool on Saturday.

The video shows the passenger jumping off the bus before hopping back on, and appearing to bang the cab enclosure where the driver is sitting.

Shocking: The video, recorded on a Stagecoach bus in Anfield, Liverpool, shows the driver opening the cab door and appearing to push the passenger off the bus and on to the pavement before he kicks him to the floor

Caught on camera: The driver is filmed kicking the man, who is left staggering on the pavement as the bus drives off

Passengers inside the bus look on through the window as the bizarre incident unfolded on the Liverpool street in broad daylight

He is chased back off the bus and onto the pavement, where the driver is recorded kicking the man in the chest and he falls to the floor. The driver then gets back on the bus, amid laughter and shock from those on board.

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The passenger is left staggering on the pavement, bent over by the kick.

Stagecoach said it had launched an investigation.

A spokesman for Stagecoach said: 'We were concerned to see this footage.

'This is not the way we would expect our drivers to deal with any situation.

'We will be looking into the full circumstances, and discussing the incident with the driver involved, as a matter of urgency.'