Heartwarming footage, from China, of a group of people lifting up a van to free an elderly man trapped under it.

In the video, captured in Shanghai last Saturday, the vehicle can be seen reversing over the man, who is on a bike.

More than a dozen passersby then come to lift the van up to rescue him from underneath it.

He was seriously injured, but is expected to recover.

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