Foul lake smell rekindles memories in Cameroon disaster

 

A foul smell arise from Lake Kuk in North-West Cameroon has caused panic among some of the local villagers, the Donpinlins's Randy Joe Sa'ah reports.

The lake and nearby Kuk village are not far from Lake Nyos, where a sudden gas escape from beneath the water in 1986 killed more than 1,600 people and thousands of livestock.

 Kuk's People who went to investigate the smell found that the water had changed its colour.

Some then started to leave the area but others stayed put, linking the natural phenomenon to the recent death of a traditional ruler. In other words, the ancestors were responding to his passing.

Kahn Elvis, a geology expert from the University of Yaoundé camerron, said the smell could have been caused by the sudden release of magma from beneath the lake's surface.

The local authorities have say people to be calm and said the strange smell and change in water colour was due to the recent heavy rains, Dornpinlins Global Resources's Cameroon reports.