Peru meteorite crash ’causes mystery illness’
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent
Tuesday September 18, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The meteorite impact crater high in the Peruvian Andes is said to be emitting noxious fumes. Photograph: EPA
A meteorite has struck a remote part of Peru and carved a large crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill, according to local press reports.
A fireball streaked across the Andean sky late on Saturday night and crashed into a field near Carancas, a sparsely populated highland wilderness near Lake Titicaca on the border with Bolivia, witnesses said.
