'Help, help, help, we have nothing to eat': Residents of locked-down Shanghai scramble for food amid reports of suicides (Watch video)

Global financial hub, Shanghai is going through the worst Covid19 outbreak. Nearly 26 million residents are under lockdown. Reportedly, 95% of cases in Shanghai are still among the people who are already under isolation. The stringent restrictions in the city have left many frustrated. Millions of residents in the city are struggling for food, essential items, medicines etc. Claims of suicides, killing of pets and people screaming from their aparments for help is going viral on social media. Reportedly, a man violated the Covid protocols in order to get arrested and fetch food in jail. Here are several videos from social media that claim to capture the worsening situation of Shanghai.

1. A social media user Patrick Madrid shared a video in which people are seen screaming out of their apartment's window.
 

2. Another video claimed that when Municipal Party Committee secretary Li Qiang Jin visited the locked-down area, people started shouting "help, help, help, we have nothing to eat".
 

3. In another video shared on a microblogging site, a person was heard shouting, "I'm starving to death! I'm starving to death!"
 

4. There is another video on Twitter that claims a man deliberately violated Covid19 norms to get arrested.
 

5. Another user claimed that when a Covid patient was taken into quarantine, that person's pet was brutally murdered by a covid worker.
 

6. Another video showed that there were small riots and protests due to the lack of food and essential items in Shanghai. People were reportedly seen looting a supermarket.