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Lake Nyos disaster

1986 CE · Cameroon, Africa · Disaster

Lake Nyos disaster
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On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.

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