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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Kind strangers rush to help man collapsed and writhing in city centre

Kind strangers stepped in to help a man who collapsed in Liverpool City Centre.

Footage sent to the ECHO shows the man looking unwell and lying on the floor in Williamson Square at around 10am yesterday morning.

A taxi driver said he witnessed the man swaying in the middle of the road and being sick before collapsing on the floor.

He said: "He was walking towards the cab rank and swaying all over the road and then suddenly he just hit the floor.

"He was vomiting too - so myself and another driver ran over and put him in the recovery position."

He added: "It wasn't nice, his body was all twisted around like he was double jointed - he was twisted like a zombie."

As you can see in the film, another passer-by stops to try and help the man.

The driver said that shortly afterwards the man recovered and as the clip shows - he started to look much better and more in control of himself.

And in another heartwarming moment, the film shows a woman approach him and attempt to give him a bottle of water to aid his recovery.

It is not clear why the man collapsed - but the cab driver said he was one of a growing number of people displaying similar behaviours in the city centre and more specifically around Willamson Square.

He added: "We are seeing lots of people in that state - it's quite worrying."

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