400 injured as meteor fireball screams across sky in Russia

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By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News

A huge fireball fell from the skies over Russia's Chelyabinsk region early Friday, resulting in a powerful blast that reportedly injured about 400 people.
Reports from Russia suggested that the fireball was caused by a meteorite.
"Preliminary indications are that it was a meteorite [shower]," the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted an emergency official as saying. "We have information about a blast at 10,000-meter (32,800-foot) altitude. It is being verified."

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