Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a scene out of a horror movie. There was no sound, the air was deadly still, and the putrid smell of rotting eggs wouldn’t ...
Deep in the volcanic highlands of northwestern Cameroon, there is an unassuming body of water that once unleashed one of the most unusual and deadly natural disasters in modern history. Lake Nyos, a ...
On August 21, 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos, Cameroon, released a massive cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating over 1,700 people and countless animals. The gas, originating from the lake's ...
On 21 August 1986, Lake Nyos emitted lethal gases (mainly carbon dioxide) that suffocated 1,746 people and around 8,300 livestock. It wasn’t the first incident like this. Two years earlier, Lake ...
An entire village's population was wiped out from the disaster A TRANQUIL lake in Cameroon turned blood red before it silently massacred every breathing being within 16 miles. Lake Nyos erupted a ...
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