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10-23-2011, 11:06 PM
By Melanie Eversley
Police in China have arrested two drivers in connection with the death of a toddler who was hit and left for dead on a busy street earlier this month in southern China, The Daily Mirror in the United Kingdom as well as Chinese-language media are reporting.
Police were able to identify the drivers of the two vans after examining graphic video of the vehicles striking 2-year-old Wang Yue, who died in the hospital on Friday, about a week after the accident in Foshan, China, the Mirror reports.
According to the Mirror, formal arrests in China almost always lead to a trial.
The case raised questions of human decency in the country, particularly as word surfaced that many passersby had witnessed the accident and done little to help the little girl.
One of those 18 passersby, a man identified by the China Daily as Chen, showed up unexpectedly outside the intensive-care unit where Wang Yue was struggling to survive and said he did not see the toddler, the news organization reports.
Chen and his wife run a store that offers water-heating products that stands about 23 feet from the accident site, according to the China Daily.
"I was looking for my own daughter then," the news organization quotes Chen as saying. "I did not notice she (Wang Yue) was lying on the street."
Wang Yang, a top official in Guangdong Province, said at a provincial government meeting that the incident should serve as a "wake up call" for society, the China Daily reported after the girl's death.
"We should look into the ugliness in ourselves," he said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YxXFx9JYQGc
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/10/two-arrests-in-hit-and-run-death-of-chinese-toddler/1
Police in China have arrested two drivers in connection with the death of a toddler who was hit and left for dead on a busy street earlier this month in southern China, The Daily Mirror in the United Kingdom as well as Chinese-language media are reporting.
Police were able to identify the drivers of the two vans after examining graphic video of the vehicles striking 2-year-old Wang Yue, who died in the hospital on Friday, about a week after the accident in Foshan, China, the Mirror reports.
According to the Mirror, formal arrests in China almost always lead to a trial.
The case raised questions of human decency in the country, particularly as word surfaced that many passersby had witnessed the accident and done little to help the little girl.
One of those 18 passersby, a man identified by the China Daily as Chen, showed up unexpectedly outside the intensive-care unit where Wang Yue was struggling to survive and said he did not see the toddler, the news organization reports.
Chen and his wife run a store that offers water-heating products that stands about 23 feet from the accident site, according to the China Daily.
"I was looking for my own daughter then," the news organization quotes Chen as saying. "I did not notice she (Wang Yue) was lying on the street."
Wang Yang, a top official in Guangdong Province, said at a provincial government meeting that the incident should serve as a "wake up call" for society, the China Daily reported after the girl's death.
"We should look into the ugliness in ourselves," he said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YxXFx9JYQGc
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/10/two-arrests-in-hit-and-run-death-of-chinese-toddler/1