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Our planet undergoes meteorite bombardment of millions years, however, until now it has not been officially documented not a single case of death of a person from a fall of the body space origin. Unfortunately, a similar tragedy occurred yesterday in India.
Shards fell on the Indian city of Velluru in Tamil Nadu a meteorite that injured two people and killed one. As reported local reporters, a deceased named Kamaraj worked as a driver the bus. He was in the local engineering college, where a piece of a meteorite split in the atmosphere flew into. A rock of extraterrestrial origin, having a diameter of a little less than twenty centimeters, hit the Indian on the head, and the man died on location. The accident occurred on Sunday evening, the seventh January.
At first, the Indian police decided that it was terrorist act however then law enforcement quickly realized that we are talking about a meteorite.
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Local authorities said they managed to find unfortunate splinter. A deceased driver can be considered quite unfortunate because on the university campus where he stayed, only one piece of the celestial body fell. The remaining stones fell upon a nearby street where two pedestrians were injured. Moreover, unwanted precipitation broke the windows of several cars and shop windows.
Tamil Nadu authorities intend to pay one hundred relatives of the deceased thousand Indian rupees, which is translated into Russian money is about one hundred and thirteen thousand rubles. Two victims currently in the hospital will receive twenty-five thousand rupees (about twenty eight thousand rubles).
According to experts, a person’s chances of dying as a result meteorite falls are negligible and amount to one in two hundred to millions. This means that any of us are more likely to swallow. giant python or will kill your own vacuum cleaner with electric shock. Even shards sensational Chelyabinsk meteorite that fell on Russia and Kazakhstan, no one was killed. The shock wave broke windows in many houses, and people wounded by glass, but no one then, fortunately, did not die.
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