A handout photo taken on February 15, 2013, and provided by Chelyabinsk region police department shows people standing near a six-metre (20-foot) hole in the ice of a frozen lake, reportedly the site of a meteor fall, outside the town of Chebakul in the Chelyabinsk region. A plunging meteor exploded today with a blinding flash above central Russia, setting off a shock wave that shattered windows and hurt over 500 people in an event unprecedented in modern times. The office of the local governor said in a statement that a meteorite had fallen into a lake outside the town of Chebakul in the Chelyabinsk region. AFP PHOTO / CHELYABINSK REGION POLICE DEPARTMENT
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