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The Lake That Breathed Death: The 1986 Disaster at Lake Nyos - Thar Tribune

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On the night of August 21, 1986, Ephriam Che was inside his mud-brick house perched on a cliff above Lake Nyos. The moon cast a dim light over the dark hills of northwestern Cameroon. Around 9 p.m., Che heard a rumbling. It sounded like a rockslide—nothing extraordinary in a volcanic region. Then he saw a mist. A strange, low-lying fog rising from the lake surface. “Looks like rain’s coming,” he told his children, before going to bed with a dull…
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thartribune.com broke the news in on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.
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