Moment Meteorite Exploded In The Sky Above Russian Town As Doctors Treat 500 People Injured When Sonic Boom Shattered Windows -- Daily Mail
* Large object flashed across the sky at 9.20am local time
* Pictures show a streak of smoke followed by several bright blasts of flames
* Russian Ministry of Emergencies says 524 people have been injured
* 82 of the injured are children and two are in intensive care
* Landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a neighbouring town
* Three people had been hospitalised in a serious condition
* 6,000 square feet of a roof at a zinc factory collapsed
* Same day as Asteroid 2012 DA14, which is due to skim Earth's orbit tonight
A terrifying meteorite shower left more than 500 people injured, buildings devastated and the mobile network wiped out when it hit Russia this morning.
Brightly burning rocks could be seen for miles as they crashed at around 9.20am local time and one bystander described it 'like a scene from the Armageddon movie.'
The meteorite is believed to have landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in the neighbouring Chelyabinsk region.
The city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow and close to the Kazakhstan border, took the brunt of the super sonic impact.
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