What Happened At Lake Nyos: The "Deadliest Lake On The Planet"
On August 21 , 1986 , a unknown rumbling stochasticity was get wind at Lake Nyos in Northwest Cameroon . The follow morning , 1,746 hoi polloi and over 3,500 livestock within 25 kilometre ( 16 miles ) of thelakewere found dead . Ephriam Che , a James Leonard Farmer who experience in a nearby mud - brick house on a drop-off , heard the rumbling at around 9 pm ....