“It was definitely not a plane,” an emergency official told Reuters,
without elaborating. “We are gathering the bits of information and have
no data on the casualties so far.”
No one was hurt in a meteor shower, an emergency official told
RIA-Novosti. Local residents said they witnessed burning objects in the
sky of the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions.
A Reuters witness in Chelyabinsk reported hearing a huge blast early
in the morning and feeling a shockwave in a 19-storey building in the
town center.
The sounds of car alarms and breaking windows could be heard in the
area, the witness said, and mobile phones were working intermittently.
“Preliminary indications are that it was a meteorite rain,” an
emergency official told RIA-Novosti. “We have information about a blast
at 10,000-meter (32,800-foot) altitude. It is being verified.”
The trace from a falling object could be seen in Yekaterinburg, some
200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Chelyabinsk, another Reuters
witness said.
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