A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood redcolor.

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.

"The really weird thing is that we have been able to catch fish because
the water is normally so clear," one local villager commented on
China's microblogging site Weibo.

Hazardous Air Quality Forces Beijing Residents Indoors 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.

province quickly filled up with the red colored liquid which had a
strange smell, according to villagers, July 25, 2014.

"We 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]," Jianfeng Xiao, Chief of the bureau
told China News.

"It turned out there wasn't heavy rainfall yesterday, so the evidence
is left behind," Xiao said.

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.

Source: Abcnew.