Hanoi lake returns to life after mass fish deaths
Restaurants have reopened and people have returned for morning exercises around the West Lake.
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| West Lake, the largest fresh water lake in Hanoi, looked almost clean on Monday, ten days after a huge number of dead fish cast a stench across the area. |
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| This part of the lake at the corner of Lac Long Quan and Trich Sai still stinks of rotten fish. |
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| Fish gone belly up draw flies on the lake along Lac Long Quan Street. |
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| A turtle leans on a dead fish to catch some air. |
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| Environmental workers are still busy cleaning up the dead fish, estimated to be around 200 tons so far. |
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| The dead fish will be dumped at a garbage site in Soc Son District on the outskirts of the city. |
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| A foreigner jogs around the lake on Monday morning, but said he could still smell the dead fish a week after the disaster. |
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| Morning exercises have returned to a park by the lake. |
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| Pumps are used to increase oxygen levels in the water. An investigation found a lack of oxygen in the water was the reason for the tons of dead fish that washed up from October 1, but polluting factors have not been identified. |
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| Many restaurants along the lake have returned to business, but there are fewer customers than before. |
