Killer lake Nyos in Africa - Carbon dioxide gas outbursts from lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon, West Africa, killed hundreds of people.

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Killer lake Nyos in Africa

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	Carbon dioxide gas outbursts from lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon, West Africa, killed hundreds of people. A controlled degassing operation is scheduled to begin in January, 2001, for reducing the risk of future carbon dioxide suffocation from these killer lakes. Sponsored Links:
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Title:	Lake Nyos: plan for degassing lakes Nyos and Monoun, Cameroon. Gas disaster at Nyos: mitigation of a natural hazard at Nyos.
Description:	Nyos: a natural disaster (gas outburst, explosion of CO2) occurred in lakes Nyos and lake Monoun in Cameroon, West Africa. A controlled degassing plan is scheduled for the mitigation of this new natural hazards at lake Nyos (casualties asphyxia by carbon dioxide).
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