{"id":99574,"date":"2014-07-26T15:12:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T11:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=99574"},"modified":"2014-07-26T15:12:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T11:12:19","slug":"river-in-china-mysteriously-turns-bloody-red-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=99574","title":{"rendered":"River In China Mysteriously Turns Bloody Red Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/river_china1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-99539\" alt=\"\u0549\u056b\u0576\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576\u056b \u0563\u0565\u057f\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/river_china1.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/river_china1.jpg 992w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/river_china1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/river_china1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>\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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinanews.com\/fz\/2014\/07-25\/6425264.shtml\">China News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turned out there wasn\u2019t heavy rainfall yesterday, so the evidence is left behind,\u201d Xiao said.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/china_river-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-99538\" alt=\"China river\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/china_river-1.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/china_river-1.jpg 992w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/china_river-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/china_river-1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color. Residents in Zhejiang&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[12842,12844,12843],"class_list":["post-99574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-eastern-china","tag-wenzhou-environmental-protection-bureau","tag-zhejiang-province","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}