Photos: China Town Wenzhou Wakes Up Find Bloody River...

A city woke up to find its river running blood
red and nobody can quite explain it.

According to locals in the area, the water was
normal as at 4am, but by the time it was
6am, the water had turned a frightening
shade of red. An elderly resident who has
lived by the river all his life says it has never
happened before.

Industrial contamination has been ruled out
because there are no chemical plants along it
length. Now environment protection
officials in the Chinese city of Wenzhou are
taking water samples to find out what is going
on. Wenzhou is a well-known town in East
China’s Zhejiang Province. The place is
surrounded by mountains on three sides with
the front of the city facing the Pacific ocean.

The phenomenon echoes a similar incident in
2012 when the Yangtze River in China also
changed colour. Officials claimed the blood-
red waters were a result of sand distribution
due to upstream flooding but sceptics were
not convinced and social media sites were full
of bizarre theories including one that it was
the start of The Apocalypse.