Picture Of The Meteor Strike.
Over 700 people have been injured after a meteor blasted across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains this morning, causing explosions and smashing windows. Many of those wounded, 67 of whom are children, were hurt by broken glass, with three people reported to be seriously injured. The blast occurred just hours before the asteroid 2012 DA14 passes the earth in the closest ever recorded fly-by of an object of its size, but the European Space Agency said its experts had determined there was no connection. Witnesses described a scene of panic and fears that “war had broken out” as the blast threw pedestrians to the ground in Chelyabinsk, an industrial city known as a centre for the country's nuclear energy and weapons programs.
The meteor struck at about 09:22 local time as people made their way to work and school children finished their first lesson.
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