{"id":34753,"date":"2014-07-26T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=34753"},"modified":"2014-07-26T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T12:35:03","slug":"river-in-china-mysteriously-turns-bloody-red-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/river-in-china-mysteriously-turns-bloody-red-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"River in China mysteriously turns bloody red overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"
A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color.<\/p>\n
Residents in Zhejiang province said the river looked normal at 5 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday morning. Within an hour, the entire river turned crimson. Residents also said a strange smell wafted through the air.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe really weird thing is that we have been able to catch fish because the water is normally so clear,\u201d one local villager commented on China\u2019s microblogging site Weibo.<\/p>\n
Inspectors from the Wenzhou Environmental Protection Bureau said they have not found the cause of the incident, although water samples seem to indicate the suspicious color was a result of illegal dumping in the river.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe suspect that somebody dumped artificial coloring in the water because he thought the typhoon yesterday would cause heavy rain, and nobody would notice [the color],\u201d Jianfeng Xiao, Chief of the bureau told\u00a0China News<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt turned out there wasn\u2019t heavy rainfall yesterday, so the evidence is left behind,\u201d Xiao said.<\/p>\n Xiao said there is a paper manufacturer, a food coloring company and clothing-maker a long the river. The bureau is still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n Source: ABC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color. Residents in Zhejiang province said the river looked normal at 5 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday morning. Within an hour, the entire river turned crimson. Residents also said a strange smell wafted through the air. \u201cThe really weird thing is that we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7],"yoast_head":"\n