Hundreds injured when meteorite falls in Russian Urals
Friday - 2/15/2013, 4:57am ET
MOSCOW (AP) -- A thick white contrail, an intense flash and sharp explosions marked the passage today of a meteor across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains, where more than 400 people have reported injuries, many from broken glass.
The Emergency Ministry says fragments of the meteorite fell in a thinly populated area of the Chelyabinsk region. And about 6000 square feet of a roof at a zinc factory collapsed.
A ministry spokeswoman calls the event a meteor shower while another ministry official says it was a single meteorite.
The event was captured on amateur video.
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