Meteor injures 1,100 as it explodes over mountains

A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb yesterday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people.

Meteor  injures 1,100 as it explodes over mountains

Many of the injured were cut by flying glass as they flocked to windows, curious about what had produced the blinding flash of light.

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