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The Killer Lake of Cameroon
In 1986 hundreds of thousands tonnes of poisonous carbon dioxide was released from the volcanic lake Nyos in Cameroon. The disaster killed 1600 people.
What happened to the survivors? And what did scientists make of the eruption?
Presented by Carolyn Dempster
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麻豆社 World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
