A meteorite hit a village in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Thursday, CCTV.com reports.
The meteorite crashed at a dump site in a village of Xinjing’s Akto County around 2:00 a.m. Thursday and punched a 3-meter wide, 2-meter deep hole in the ground.
Local authorities say no casualties have been reported and investigation and research work on the meteorite fragments is ongoing.
This photo taken on August 1, 2013, shows the dump site which was hit by a meteorite in a village of Akto County of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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