1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide hit the valley near the settlement, “suffocating” almost all living things. In total, 1,746 people and about 3,500 farm animals died.
37 years ago, on August 21, a “silent, invisible killer” ravaged one of Cameroon’s villages. It destroyed entire families, pets, livestock, birds and even insects. The Daily Star writes about it.
A total of 1,746 people and nearly 3,500 livestock died when a plume of carbon dioxide rose from a nearby lake.
On the night of August 21, 1986, at around 9 PM, the inhabitants of a small West African village called Nyos heard a deep rumbling like thunder. The next morning, Ephraim Che, one of the villagers, awoke to find that almost everyone he knew was dead. YouTuber Mr Ballen shared this chilling story.
A man was walking in surprise through a desolate and eerily quiet village when he heard a woman cry. As he got closer, he realized that it was his friend Halime Süley.
“Ephraim! Come here! Why are these people lying? Why don’t they move anymore?” the woman cried.
The publication states that Ephraim saw more than 30 members of his family and their 400 cattle, not far from the corpses of his neighbor’s children.
“Not a fly died that day. Not even a bug was hit by an invisible killer,” Ephraim recalls.
Most of the victims were found exactly where they were at around 9 PM, suggesting they died before they knew anything had happened. A few more people died in the days after the disaster.
The waters of the lake, which are normally blue, have turned into a blood-red color. 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide hit the nearby valley, “suffocating” almost all living things.
Although the CO2 had no detectable odor, some victims reported that the lake emitted a foul odor reminiscent of gunpowder or rotten eggs, suggesting that a minor volcanic eruption may have been responsible for the gas formation.
The scale of the disaster has sparked a lot of research on how to prevent it from happening again. Starting in 1995, feasibility studies were carried out successfully and in 2001 the first permanent degassing pipe was laid in Lake Nyos.
This strange situation is rare, but not unique. Similar deaths of bears and other wildlife have been recorded in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. And two years ago, carbon dioxide rose from Monoun Lake, about 60 miles south of Nyos, in a less isolated part of Cameroon. About 40 people died at that time.
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It was also learned that the villagers were too afraid to go out in the evening because of the gangs. The most common types of crimes committed in the town are violent and sexual crimes. In the last year, 538 events were recorded.
Source: Focus
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