Witness History: Archive 2011 - Cameroon's Lake Nyos Disaster

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How villagers in a remote region of Cameroon awoke one morning to find hundreds of their friends and neighbours had mysteriously died in the night.

We hear from the scientists who were sent in to find out what had happened.

Published on Monday, 29th August 2011.

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