A grisly video of a Chinese toddler run over by a van has sparked outrage and disbelief in Chinese media.

Closed-circuit camera footage posted on YouTube and Youku, a Chinese video-sharing site, shows that the 2-year-old, identified by the China Daily newspaper as Yueyue, was left writhing in a street as roughly a dozen pedestrians, cyclists and motorists passed by inside a wholesale market in Foshan, a city in China’s southern Guangdong province.

The passers-by all also ignored the girl’s bloody body.

A rickshaw driver, a motorcyclist and even a woman hand-in-hand with a young child noticed the toddler, but neglected to stop. The girl was run over a second time by a light-duty truck.

After the first van driver struck the little girl, he paused, his vehicle straddling the girl’s torso, before driving forward, running her over a second time with his back wheel. One commenter on the Twitter-style Chinese microblogging site Weibo posted, “This society is seriously ill. Even cats and dogs shouldn’t be treated so heartlessly.”

Another wrote: “Now people ignore everything other than money. This society is lacking people with a conscience badly.”

Thousands of Weibo users are posting the hashtag, “Please end the indifference.”

Nearly 10 minutes after the initial accident, a 57-year-old garbage collector scooped Yueyue’s from the middle of the road and placed her out of harm’s way. The China Daily reported that the rescuer had been ignored when she sought help for the girl.

One Weibo user named Johnny Yao decried the video as an unflattering example of modern China.

“This just shows how abnormal is the moral situation in this society! The sad Chinese, poor China, are we even rescuable?”

The girl reportedly died at the General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command on Sunday, according to the Shanghai Daily. New reports have come out saying she is alive, but is in critical condition at the hospital.

Yueyue had just returned from kindergarten, when her mother left her alone at the family’s hardware store to retrieve laundry, the China Daily reported.

The newspaper said the van and truck drivers were arrested on Sunday.

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