Alarming footage shows the ex-president of China, Hu Jintao, escorted out of the Communist Party Congress - hours before he disappeared from his country's social media.
The nation's censors appeared to quickly scrub any recent references to the 79-year-old politician from the web after his departure disrupted the event at Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
But the former leader appeared disorientated and reluctant to leave the front row of proceedings, where he was sitting next to President Xi Jinping. In the footage, shared online, a steward attempts to take a sitting Hu by the arm but is shaken off.
