Early this morning Russia’s Interior Ministry said more than 1,000 people were hurt, 200 of them childrenafter bright objects, apparently debris from a meteor, streaked through the sky in western Siberia, the streak was accompanied by a boom that damaged buildings across a vast territory. mostly from shards of glass that shattered when the meteor entered the atmosphere. Reports say many of the injuries were suffered by residents in the city of Chelyabinsk, about 950 miles east of Moscow, in a region where many factories for defense, including nuclear weapons production, are situated. But there was no indication of damage that resulted in any radiation leaks, officials said. Click here >>to read full story click here to >>watch videos of Meteorite
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