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| Central Russia hit by meteor shower in Ural region | Central Russia hit by meteor shower in Ural region |
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| A meteor shower in central Russia has caused some injuries and shattered windows, reports say. | A meteor shower in central Russia has caused some injuries and shattered windows, reports say. |
| Brightly burning rocks could be seen for hundreds of kilometres as they crashed into the Ural region. | Brightly burning rocks could be seen for hundreds of kilometres as they crashed into the Ural region. |
| Chelyabinsk residents reported shaking ground, windows being shattered and car alarms being set off during the shower. | |
| The traces from falling objects could be seen in Yekaterinburg, about 200km (125 miles) south-east of Chelyabinsk, a witness told the Reuters news agency. | |
| "A meteorite exploded above the Chelyabinsk region," an emergencies ministry spokesman told Interfax. | |
| A witness in Chelyabinsk told Reuters that a huge blast was heard early on Friday morning and that shockwaves were felt in a 19-storey building in the town centre. | |
| The Interfax news agency said that preliminary reports indicated that four people were injured by flying glass. | |
| People in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions reported seeing "burning objects" in the sky. |