25 years Lake Nyos disaster

It is now 25 years that lake Nyos in the Nord-West Province released a toxic cloude of volcanic gazes that killed 1.700 people.

Spiegel-Online commemorates this disaster:  http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/23352/toedliche_wolke_aus_dem_see.html

Volcanic activities still continue at Mount Cameroon. During its last eruption a flow of lava of 16 km almost reached the coast.

The volcanic lava still smoking in 2002