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Volcanic activity around Lake Nyos

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    A team of experts from the Mines, Water and Power Resources Ministry left the capital, Yaounde, on Friday for Lake Nyos to investigate reports of volcanic activity there, Reuters reported on Monday.

    Reports from Bamenda in Northwest Province, some 70 km south of Lake Nyos, indicated rumblings at the lake on 2 August and an explosion the following day while farmers and fishers in the area said there are dead fish floating in the lake, according to Reuters.

    In 1986 some 1,800 villagers died after inhaling toxic fumes which bubbled up from the depths of the lake and asphyxiated those living nearby. The lake is on the same geological fault line as Mount Cameroon which erupted in March this year destroying about 100 buildings and making around 20 families homeless.

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