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Steven White

Abandoned Romanian village drowned beneath toxic lake of fluorescent yellow sludge

Stunning yet ghostly photos show a Romanian village drowned beneath a multi-coloured lake of toxic sludge and water.

Geamana was once packed with inhabitants inside a fertile valley until the end of the 1970s when large reserves of copper were discovered nearby.

The country's then communist dictator, the infamous Nicolae Ceaușescu, ordered the go-ahead for copper mining to begin.

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