A village in Germany has left health experts baffled as almost every household there has a resident suffering from cancer, a media report said Monday.

The Wewelsfleth village with a population of 1,500 has been dubbed the "village of the damned", said the Daily Mail. Village mayor Ingo Karstens, who lost two wives to cancer, said: "It feels like a curse." Researchers from the University of Lubeck investigated the phenomenon and found cases of breast, lung, oesophageal, womb and stomach cancer.