The small hamlet of Shangba is a tiny jumbled collection of houses sitting in the lush green paddy fields and hills of southern China. It sounds idyllic, but many of the locals are dying after drinking polluted water.
Shangba has become one of the country's growing number of what have been called "cancer villages".
Scientists have found high levels of poisonous heavy metals in the water and believe there is a direct connection between incidences of cancer and mining in the area. 250 people from the village's population of 3,000 have died of cancer since 1987, although statistics in China are often unreliable.
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