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REPUBLIC BNAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST THniSv THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC A17 Mass burials start for 1 500 killed by mysterious gas in Cameroon i Tfoo Cameroon africa Dioaofor CAMEROON Cameroon, the size of California with a population of 9.2 million, It located on the Gulf of Guinea In western Africa. Fur Throws Assorted novelty fur throws by Biederlack jr ItjmW 'I rt For many years, Jtyf ') gases collect in i ii CIIjBV AP 60" 80" Comp. to $50 Our Reg. 19.99 United Press International BAMRNDA, Cameroon Relief workers began mass burials Tuesday of an estimated 1,500 people killed by an unidentified gas cloud that burst from a volcanic lake, leaving the body-strewn landscape looking "as if a neutron bomb had exploded." President Paul Biya had said 1,200 people were killed in Friday night's natural disaster, but the U.N. Disaster Relief Agency in Geneva said Tuesday that based on reports from the scene, 1,534 people died and 300 were hospitalized.

State-run Radio Cameroon said workers wearing surgical masks battled heavy rains to bury some of the victims in mass graves and to prevent the spread of disease from rotting corpses in the area around Lake Nios, a remote mountainous region of western Cameroon. Other rescue workers, including Americans, French, Israelis and Cameroonian soldiers, began caring for survivors of the deadly gas cloud, which spread 6 miles around the lake Friday night, killing villagers, many while they slept. "It makes no difference where I live," mourned villager Chia David Vambon of Souboum, one of four devastated settlements around lake. He said his two children were killed by the gas cloud. "All my family is dead, and my wife is in the hospital," he said.

"Where can I go?" As relief workers ferried medicine, food and other supplies to survivors, villagers were warned not to drink possibly contaminated water and were told emergency water rations would be supplied. Hundreds of cattle carcasses littered the region. Soldiers were waiting for heavy equipment to cart them away. "It was as if a neutron bomb had exploded, destroying nothing but killing all life," the Rev. Fred Horn, a Dutch priest, said on his return from the region.

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Officials said they believed only one woman and her child survived in the lakeside village of Nios and estimated 700 to 1,000 died there. The president, on his return Monday from Bamenda, said the gas burst into the skies Friday night, although the Dutch priest said survivors told him it happened Thursday night. Col. Michael Wiener, the Israeli team's chief medical officer, warned that the death toll could go much higher, saying the casualty figures of "1,500 to 2,000 are equally a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide. Horn said that in one village, he encountered shocked survivors who complained of a painful burning in their chests.

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