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40 Years On: Survivors Recall Trauma of Lake Nyos Disaster in Cameroon

Forty years ago, on August 21, 1986, a carbon dioxide cloud from Lake Nyos in Cameroon killed nearly 2,000 people, leaving survivors still traumatized.

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Lake Nyos Killed 1,746 in 1986; Scientists Later Found More Gas

Lake Nyos caused the deaths of 1,746 people in 1986 due to a limnic eruption, and scientists later discovered more gas accumulating in the lake.

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40 Years On: Survivors Recall Trauma of Lake Nyos Disaster in Cameroon

Lake Nyos Killed 1,746 in 1986; Scientists Later Found More Gas

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