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Hundreds of people were injured after the meteor blew apart in the atmosphere resulting in a number of meteorites falling earthwards. One large meteorite landed in a lake near Chebarkul.

Wadwani tehsildar Vaibhav Mahindrakar said the stones were recovered from two spots a few metres apart ... the atmosphere and fall upon Earth's surface is called a meteorite," he said.