TOKYO: Officials were left red-faced at a beer factory in Japan’s Okinawa region on Tuesday (Jun 27), after a mishap turned a large body of water a sinister shade of scarlet.
A leak filled a port area in the city of Nago with red water, which one Twitter user described as looking “venomous”.
Orion Breweries said water used for cooling, which contains a liquid called propylene glycol – dyed red with food colouring – had leaked from a factory in the area.
In a statement, it apologised for “causing enormous trouble and worry”.
“We believe the leaked cooling water seeped through rainwater gutters into a river, and consequently turned the ocean red,” the company said.