A two-year-old toddler girl in southern China, who was hit by two vehicles and unnoticed by 18 on lookers has passed away, hospital authorities say.
Surveillance camera footage appeared people walking past the girl as she lay bleeding and unconscious.
It sparked a wave of criticism and soul-searching on China's social networking sites.
Doctors had previously said Wang Yue, who had been in a coma since the accident on 13 October, was improbably to stay alive.
Police have arrested the drivers of both vans involved in the mishap, which took place in the city of Foshan in southern Guangdong Province.
Wang Yue was knocked down by a vehicle while wandering through a market, where her parents run a shop. The driver sped off without evaluating the girl's condition.
Over the following minutes, about 18 people walked past the bleeding child, and another vehicle ran over her legs, but no one stopped up to assist.
The painful video recording was shown on television.
A garbage collector who at last moved the toddler to the side of the street was sleeted as a national hero, but the mishap led several online critics to question the state of Chinese ethics.
A hospital’s spokesman told the AFP news agency that Wang Yue had died of "complete organ breakdown", adding that no expenditure had been secured attempting to safe the girl, whose parents are migrant workers.
There have been millions of internet remarks about how to cheer good Samaritans - and many more expressing anger that so many people denied to help.
Her death was one of the most commented on topics on China's Weibo - a micro-blogging site similar to Twitter - on Friday as people expressed sadness and annoyance over the mishap.
"Farewell to little Wang Yue. There are no cars in paradise," wrote one micro-blogger.
Guangdong province is discussing the preface of a law to force people to help others in clear trouble.
Opening online polls, though, advise most people are against it.
"Talk about being enlightened first. Is anyone paying concentration to that?" read one posting.
Organizations in Guangdong are also watching at other ways to give confidence to the people to act with sympathy when faced with a tragedy.
The provincial government's political and legal affairs committee is utilizing its micro-blog site to gather views about how to "guide brave acts for just reasons" and advertise "socialist ethics”.
Several spectators have associated the collapse of the passers-by to help with prestigious cases in which residents who stopped to help people in misery were later held responsible for their dilemma.
