Suddenly, the silence was broken by a loud explosion heard by the villagers near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.
Initially, they thought an airplane crashed nearby. When the residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," a few policemen went to check on the reports but it is reported that they too became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized.
It was later discovered that the explosion and the subsequent illness was a caused by a meteor crash. The meteorite left a 100-foot-wide and 20-foot-deep crater.
Read the full story here: Yahoo News.
The photo below shows the green streak of a meteor cutting across the sky.
Acknowledgment: yahoo News.
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