On August 22, 1986, the villagers near Lake Nyos in Cameroon went to sleep, unaware of the silent disaster about to strike. By morning, 1,746 people and thousands of animals lay dead.

August 21, 1986, was a busy market day in the village of Lower Nyos and that evening most people went to bed early. The next morning, some 1,700 people and 3,000 domestic animals were discovered ...

Lake Nyos and the surrounding land in northwest ... who want to study and tomorrow they will come back and build this village. I am not happy with the government.” The Cameroon government ...

On August 22, 1986, a silent cloud from Lake Nyos suffocated an entire village in minutes. A deadly eruption no one saw coming. Soccer star Sophia Wilson announces pregnancy with Arizona Cardinals ...

It was around 9pm when people living in a tiny West African village heard a deep rumbling sound like distant thunder. The next morning one of the residents living in Nyos, Cameroon, woke up to ...

Lake Nyos was known by locals as the “good ... one of the deadliest natural disasters in African history. Nios, the village closest to the lake, was the worst affected. A man who traveled ...

Some African lakes can release deadly clouds of volcanic gases. August 21, 1986 was a busy market day in the village of Lower Nyos (Cameroon) and most people that evening went to bed early.

A few Kilometers driving through the kimbi game reserve takes travelers to the very haunted village of Subum where the nation counted 400 dead following the explosion of lake Nyos. Nineteen years ...

Terrified, he continued downhill towards the village by the lake ... Scientists descended upon Nyos to investigate in the coming weeks, finding bodies strewn everywhere, and a lake that had ...

It also features the tarring of an access road from lake Nyos village, rehabilitation of the Nkambe-Misaje-Kimbi, Nyos road, the Nyos- Chah-Weh-Wum, Kimbi-Fonfuka, Wum- Bafmen, Bafmen- Palem-Chah ...

Danger that can sometimes be lethally subtle. In August of 1986, one such quiet tragedy hit the homes and villages surrounding Lake Nyos, located in the Central African country Cameroon.