Crowds gathered outside a doctors' surgery today after a man suffered a cardiac arrest in the car park.

Paramedics were called to the Bryant Street Medical Centre, Chatham, at 10.30am.

They took three minutes to get there, but witnesses said the man died at the scene.

Police and ambulance spokesmen have not confirmed whether the man died, but a police spokesman said undertakers were called. The man was taken away in an ambulance shortly after 11.30am.

Four people who tried to help the man claimed they watched others walk past him without stopping.

One of the four, White Road resident Claire Lovell, 28, fainted from shock and was treated by paramedics.

She said: "I was here for a doctor's appointment and saw him lying on his back. We stayed on the phone to the ambulance and turned him to the recovery position.

"He was blue and his arms were stiff. I ran in to fetch a doctor but they didn't come before the ambulance arrived."

An ambulance spokesman said the man was thought to be in his 60s.

Ben Bolt, 24, dialled 999. He said: "I was going to my girlfriend's house when I saw him there and tried to help. I saw a few people look at him and walk on - some people are disgusting."

Three police cars and three ambulances were at the scene as police roped off a strip of the road, which is next to the main A2 through Chatham.