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More than a dozen passers-by ignored a two-year-old girl as she lay critically injured on a street in southern China after being run over twice, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday.

The incident has sparked outrage on China's hugely popular social media sites.

Surveillance cameras showed a series of people walk past the girl, named Yue Yue, after she was hit first by a van and then a truck outside her family's shop in the southern Chinese city of Foshan.

Xinhua said a rubbish collector who finally came to the girl's aid, moving her to the curb and shouting for help, was ignored by several shopkeepers before he finally tracked down her mother who took her to hospital.

In response, one netizen on Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blog similar to Twitter, wrote: "This society is seriously ill. Even cats and dogs shouldn't be treated so heartlessly."

But others linked the incident to an earlier case in which a man who tried to help an elderly woman after she fell over was prosecuted, apparently because his intervention broke government rules on dealing with accident victims.

Doctors said Yue Yue was in a coma and unlikely to survive the ordeal.

"She would not be able to survive any operations. She's very close to brain death," a spokesman for the hospital treating her told AFP.

Police have detained the drivers of both vehicles involved in the incident, Xinhua said.

(Agencies)

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GUANGZHOU - A 2-year-old girl who was ignored by passers-by as she lay injured after being run over twice, has been declared "brain dead" by doctors, who say she could die at any time.

Footage from a surveillance camera presented on local TV shows Yue Yue was walking in a hardware market in Foshan, Guangdong province, on Thursday, about 100 meters away from her home, when she was run over by a van at 5:26 pm. Three passers-by who noticed the injured girl chose to ignore her.

The girl was then run over by a light-duty truck. The riders of four electric bicycles, a tricycle and three passers-by all chose to ignore her and no one at a shop close to the scene came to her aid.

Seven minutes after she was first hit by the van, a 57-year-old rag collector noticed the girl and moved her to the curb. The woman then tried talking to the shopkeeper but received no response. She then walked into the street and a few seconds later, the girl's mother appears and rushes away with the girl.

The girl received emergency surgery in Foshan before being transferred to the General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Command of the People's Liberation Army in Guangzhou on the same day.

The girl was critically injured, with no spontaneous respiration and close to brain death when she arrived at the hospital, said Wen Qiang, deputy director of the intensive care unit of the hospital.

The little girl was declared "brain dead" by the hospital on Sunday afternoon and could die at any time, according to a doctor surnamed Peng.

The most optimistic estimate is that the girl will remain in a vegetative state on life support.

Police caught the truck driver soon after the incident and the van driver turned himself in on Sunday afternoon.

Before the accident, the girl, just back with her mother from the kindergarten, was left alone at the hardware shop of the family when her mother went to collect dried clothes. When she returned, the mother could not find her daughter at the shop or anywhere nearby until she heard the rag-collecter shout, according to Guangzhou Daily.

According to reports the van driver had just split up from his girlfriend and was talking on his mobile phone when he hit the girl.

"If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan," said the driver over the phone to the media, before he gave himself up to the police.

When she ran from shop to shop for the identity of the girl, the rag collector was told by a number of shopkeepers to mind her own business.

The case provoked much public anger. With many netizens condemning the cold-bloodiness of the passers-by and blaming their behavior on previous high-profile court cases.

In June, Xu Yunhe was ordered by a court in Tianjin to pay an elderly woman he had helped more than 100,000 yuan.

In the guidelines on how to help elderly people who have fallen down, issued by the Ministry of Health in September, the public are advised: "Don't rush to lend a hand to the elderly after seeing them fall over. It should be handled by different measures in different situations."

The guidelines suggest evaluating the person's physical condition, determining the cause of the accident, and making a plan for rescue workers before lending a hand.

The ministry said the guidelines have nothing to do with morality and ethics but explain how to deliver assistance in a scientifically proper way.

Earlier this month, a bus driver in Chengdu, Sichuan province, drove his vehicle directly to the hospital after an elderly woman on board collapsed with a cerebral hemorrhage. Four other passengers, who were willing to serve as witnesses should any dispute occur in the future, gave the driver their phone numbers.

Tan Fang, a professor with the South China Normal University in Guangzhou, set up a foundation in March to deal with the risks of helping the elderly in difficult situations. It provides both financial and legal aid to those who get into trouble helping the elderly.

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Police officers prepare to storm a house, where Li Lin, an alleged drug trafficker who had taken three children hostage, was hiding, in Longan county, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Friday. (Lei Jing / for China Daily)

BEIJING - An alleged drug dealer who injured three policemen and took three hostages shot himself to death after being surrounded by hundreds of police in a border county in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Friday, said local police.

Li Lin, the 45-year-old suspect, had been wanted since Aug 25 on allegations of drug trafficking.

Li shot at the officers after his Buick, loaded with drugs, was stopped at a tollgate in Daxin county at 10:20 am, leaving three policemen injured, according to a notice released on Saturday by Guangxi public security department.

One of the officers was shot in the lip, one in the left arm and one in the right eye. They were hospitalized in Nanning, capital of Guangxi.

All three were in stable condition as of Sunday afternoon, Lei Jing, a press officer at the Guangxi public security department, told China Daily.

Photos taken by Lei showed the windshield of a police car had been destroyed by bullets.

The police shot back, wounding Li in the thigh. He then sped away, destroying part of the tollgate as he fled, and escaped to a town in neighboring Longan county.

The police later found Li hiding in a bedroom of a residential building in Qiaojian township at about 6 pm. They said he took three children from one family hostage: a 12-year-old daughter, a 10-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter.

The older girl managed to escape when Li wasn't watching.

More than 430 police officers then surrounded the building and dispersed as many as 300 local residents.

Xu Guangwen, a police officer of Daxin county who had been tracking Li's case for months, entered the bedroom three times in plain clothes, talked with the suspect and tried to persuade him to release the remaining two hostages.

After three hours of negotiations, Li released the other two children. He shot himself to death afterward. The police didn't say what was discussed between Xu and Li.

None of the three children were hurt, said local police.

The police also detained two suspects surnamed Mo and Huang, allegedly from Li's gang in Nanning and Fusui, also in Guangxi. The police seized five packages of heroin weighing 1.75 kg in total, two vehicles allegedly used in drug trafficking, a pistol and six bullets. Another suspect, surnamed Zhu, from Li's gang remains at large.

The police are further investigating the case, according to Lei.

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Volunteers move a cage of dogs from a truck in Zigong, Sichuan province, on Saturday. [Chuan You / for China Daily]

BEIJING / CHENGDU - Two animal protection organizations paid about 83,000 yuan ($13,000) to a dog trader in Southwest China's Sichuan province to rescue nearly 800 dogs that were due to be delivered to restaurants in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

The deal was clinched in the city of Zigong on Saturday night after two-days of negotiations.

Qiao Wei, 26, who works for Sichuan Qiming Companion Animal Protection Center (SCAPC), a Chengdu-based animal welfare organization, told China Daily that the money was paid for humanitarian reasons and not used to buy the dogs.

The SCAPC and the Love of Home Animal Rescue Center (LHARC) in Chengdu would not have paid the dog trader Tang Daguo a cent if they had not taken into consideration his economic plight, Qiao said in a telephone interview.

"A deputy Party chief of Gongjing district in Zigong, surnamed Zhu, told us Tang was very poor," said Qiao.

The deal was clinched between the SCAPC and LHARC with the help of Gongjing district, Qiao added.

The dog trader, Tang Daguo, has now promised to give up dog trading. All the dogs will be taken away by dog protectionists without any compensation if he does not mend his ways according to a written agreement signed by Tang, the two animal protection organizations and the local district government.

The initiator of the dog-rescue campaign, a volunteer who gave the name "Wenzi", said none of the volunteers felt it was reasonable to pay the dog trader but they ran out of choices during the standoff as dogs were dying in the truck. Eight dogs died in the crowded cages during the standoff.

"The dog trader refused to let us release the dogs from the cages," Wenzi said, adding Tang asked for 120,000 yuan for the dogs at first.

Dog lovers found caged dogs were being loaded on two trucks and two tricycles in a village on Friday evening.

When they and their supporters arrived at the scene, one truck with about 500 dogs left the scene, but they managed to stop another truck and the two tricycles, said Zhou Xuan, a 29-year-old dog lover in Zigong.

The dogs are now being cared for by the SCAPC and LHARC in Chengdu.

Chen Yunlian, 62, founder of LHARC, said she rushed to Zigong on Friday night and sent the dogs distributed to her organization to its newly established base in Shuangliu county in Chengdu.

"Our organization has only 12 staff members. And I will be the only one available to take care of the rescued dogs on Monday," she said.

Chen said most of the dogs are in poor health after two-days without food and water, and some have broken legs as the cages were crowded.

"We are providing the dogs with water and food which they had been deprived of because of the narrow space in the truck," Qiao said.

He said that health checks would be conducted on all the rescued dogs and any sick dogs would be separated from the others.

Some of the dogs were stolen from their owners as two pet owners went to the spot and found their dogs in the cages, and many of the dogs failed to meet the quarantine standards, which would have posed health risks for consumers, Chen said.

An Xiang, a lawyer in Beijing, said he did not applaud the volunteers' behavior of buying the dogs from the dog trader as it encouraged wrongdoing.

More people should press the government to strengthen its supervision in the sector, An said.

In a previous case, volunteers stopped a truck in April carrying 520 dogs on the Beijing-Harbin Highway and finally paid 100,000 yuan to save them from being butchered and sold as meat after a 15-hour standoff. The case also aroused much controversy among the public

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A man walks past antiquated military hardware displayed at the military museum in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. .

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Visitors explore the booths inside one of the exhibition halls of China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou October 17, 2011. Exporters at China's largest trade show, the Canton Fair, say a darkening economic outlook in Europe and the United States is weighing on orders for Chinese-made goods from Western buyers, potentially boding ill for China's growth prospects.

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Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou gestures as answering a question during a news conference in Taipei, October 17, 2011. Ma may consider a peace treaty with political rival China in 10 years, he said on Monday, but only if the Taiwanese people agree and there is sufficient trust between the two sides.

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Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters wave flags during an election campaign in Changhua, central Taiwan, October 12, 2011.

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BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 17: Chinese host Shen Xing (L) and basketball player Yao Ming celebrate on an Airbus A380 of China Southern Airlines during its maiden voyage from Beijing to Guangzhou at Beijing Capital International Airport on October 17, 2011 in Beijing, China. China Southern became the country's first airline to fly the Airbus A380 and only the seventh operator globally.

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BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 17: Air hostesses of an Airbus A380 of China Southern Airlines pose ahead of its maiden voyage from Beijing to Guangzhou at Beijing Capital International Airport on October 17, 2011 in Beijing, China. China Southern became the country's first airline to fly the Airbus A380 and only the seventh operator globally.

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BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 17: An Airbus A380 of China Southern Airlines takes off from Beijing Capital International Airport during its maiden voyage from Beijing to Guangzhou on October 17, 2011 in Beijing, China. China Southern became the country's first airline to fly the Airbus A380 and only the seventh operator globally.

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A staff member displays gold bullion bars during a news conference at the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society in Hong Kong Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. The Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society started gold trading in yuan on Monday in Hong Kong.

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Ethnic Dong minority men play the Sheng, a traditional Chinese music instrument, as they march with Dong minority women along a road during a Kam Grand Choir gathering in Tongguan village of Liping county, Guizhou province October 17, 2011. According to the local government, Tongguan village is the birthplace of the Kam Grand Choir, which is a traditional polyphonic choral performance of the Dong minority. The villagers in Tongguan keep a routine for choir practise, dressed in their traditional costumes, whenever they are free from farming. Practice usually occurs twice a week during the day, and almost every evening.

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In a photo taken on October 16, 2011 a model poses for photographers on the banks of a runway at Hong Kong's international airport. Photography clubs are no strangers to the camera-mad city's open spaces, turning rocky outcrops into improptu studios where they can often be found huddled before aspiring models and a breathtaking backdrop.

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SHANGHAI, CHINA - OCTOBER 16: Chinese actress Tang Yan attends I.T fashion show on October 16, 2011 in Shanghai, China.

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Eleven cargo ships anchor at the Guanlei Port in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Oct. 16, 2011. More than 40 cargo ships with about 1000 people were trapped at Guanlei Port because of the hijack and murder happened on the Mekong River in north Thailand's Chiang Rai Province. The sailors and their relatives faced shortage of supply. (Xinhua/Chen Haining)

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