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The Lake Nyos disaster happen in the northwest region of Cameroon of day of august 21, 1986. It is one of the three knows lakes in the world to be saturated with carbon dioxide. Even though scientists had believed the volcano is to be extinct on that day farmers living near Lake Nyos herd rumbling, a spray shot hundreds of feet from the lake with a white cloud over the water. The cloud was 328ft tall,it had left the nearby farmers unconscious or dead in a few breaths. It had killed up to 15.5 miles from the lake including 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock and even insects. The survivors said that the dead people didn't have flies on them, the flies were even dead. Most people were killed in their sleep. It has gotten to three Villegas, one is to be thought as completely killed off. The once blue lake has now turned to a dark rust color. The lake released up to 1.6 million tons of CO2. CO2 is denser then air which had caused it harder for people to breath. Although it is still a mystery on how it happen they're theories one is that cool rain water falling on side of the lake triggered an overturn. The survivors were treated for poison of hydrogen and sulfur gases . The symptoms were burning pains in the eyes and noses,coughing, and signs similar to strangulation. Pipes have now been installed in Lake Nyos and nearby lakes to allow CO2 to be able to slowly come out preventing it to happen again.

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