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Disasters with highest death tolls

Lake Nyos Disaster

Thursday Aug 21, 1986
Cameroon

On August 21, 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.


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