During the Little India riot on Sunday night, video footage showed paramedics and first responders fleeing from the scene of the riot after the vehicles they were in were torched.

New footage uploaded and shared on Facebook on Monday showed exactly what happened moments before the paramedics and first responders were sent scurrying to safety.

In the video, an overturned police vehicle was on fire blocking the path of an ambulance. People by the side of the road were most likely aware there were still people inside the ambulance.

Amid flying projectile and debris thrown from the side aimed at the burning police vehicle, a group of foreign workers approached the ambulance gesticulating with their hands in the air, perhaps as a sign that they were not armed and not hostile:

As they approached the back of the ambulance -- without any sign that they were forcing the doors open -- they signalled to the paramedics and first responders inside it was safe to make a run for it.

All these happened while onlookers cheered:

The people in the ambulance than made a dash for safety:

Although one foreign worker did steal a stretcher. Check out the top left hand corner of the clip below and you'll see him wheeling the stretcher away:

And in a separate video taken by someone else, you can see the stretcher wheeled down the road before hitting the curb and keeling over:

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