'This is daytime': bright red haze from Indonesian rainforest fires envelops village

Surreal footage shows the village of Jambi swamped in thick cloud of pollution

It looks like a scene from a dystopian future, but in reality it is the Indonesian island of Sumatra this week – enveloped in a toxic red haze as hundreds of hectares of virgin rainforest have been burned to the ground.

Blanketed in an eerie copper haze, one amateur video has captured skies that would not be out of place in the apocalyptic film, Bladerunner 2049.

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