Report: Chinese girl in hit-and-run video dies (graphic video)

The graphic surveillance video of the incident on October 13 in Foshan city, Guandong province, shows a 2 year old girl run over by a van, which then drives off leaving her bleeding on a narrow street. Photo / supplied

A two-year-old girl that was the victim of a hit-and-run in China has died, according to Reuters.

The incident became international news when the video surveillance footage was published on the Chinese social media site Youku and generated millions of views.

The footage showed numerous people passing her by while she lay on the road injured and bleeding. It wasn't until she was struck by a second vehicle that a passerby pulled her to safety.

Reuters reported that both drivers have been arrested.

A YouTube video shows a driver stopping for a short time before driving away, crushing the girl again beneath his rear wheels.

She is left bleeding on the road as passersby walk or cycle around her.

After the girl is hit by a second truck, a woman pulls her to the side of the road and her mother enters the shot.

Earlier this week Chinese hospital staff reportedly told media the girl was now on life support in a deep coma.

The video has been shared more than a million times on Youku.

It has prompted fiery debate and anguished posts about the state of Chinese society.

One user on Chinese micro-blogging website Weibo called the incident "the shame of the Chinese people", Reuters reported.

"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," the user said.

Other social media users blamed the apparent indifference to the dying girl on past prosecutions lodged against good samaritans in China.

So far, 4.4 million comments have been posted on Weibo, organised under the heading "Please end the cold-heartedness," reported the Associated Press.

High-profile law suits have ended with good Samaritans ordered to pay hefty fines to individuals they sought to help, the Guardian reported.