Shepherd to sue over falling rocket

A SHEPHERD is suing Russia’s space agency for compensation after he said a 3-metre-long chunk of metal from a space rocket fell into his yard, just missing his outdoor toilet.

Boris Urmatov is asking for 1 million roubles ($42,000) from the Roskosmos agency. He lives in a village that lies underneath the flight-path of rockets taking off from Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan.

“Something woke him up in the night, like something exploded. Since he’s visually handicapped, he didn’t notice the fallen rocket parts,” Urmatov’s sister Marina said from Kyrlyk, a village 3,500km east of Moscow.