A man who was allegedly dragged out of an ambulance and left on a street in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, died before police arrived to attend to him an hour later, reports Xinhuanet.com yesterday.

The migrant worker was found trembling at a market on the morning of July 29.

After someone called the municipal emergency medical unit, an ambulance was dispatched to pick him up, but instead dropped him off again in front of a garbage recycling station at noon, witnesses said.

But a spokesman for the emergency treatment centre of the First Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College said the man had demanded to be taken home after a routine examination showed he was fine.

The municipal government is looking into the case, which has reportedly stirred public discontent.

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