A 20,000-strong team has been sent to the Ural mountains as part of a rescue and clean-up operation after Friday’s meteor strike, Russia’s emergency, ministry says.
President Vladimir Putin ordered the operation to help some 1,200 people who were injured, including 200 children, mostly by shattered glass.
The shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings around Chelyabinsk.
A fireball streaked through the clear morning sky, followed by loud bangs.
A large meteorite landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in Chelyabinsk region, and Friday morning’s dramatic passage was witnessed hundreds of kilometres away.
Such meteor strikes are rare in Russia but one is thought to have devastated an area of more than 2,000 sq km (770 sq m) in Siberia in 1908.
courtesy:bbc news
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