A meteorite fell in a rice field and terrorized Indian farmers

Nail "fireball" The size of a football dropped from the sky during a harvest in Bihar, East of India. The farmers who were working there were scared, but then went back to the place to find out what it was.

In a crater one meter deep, the inhabitants of Koriyahi village found a brown stone which weighed about 15 kilos.

Shirsat Kapil Ashok, a district official from Madhubani, told the AFP that the heavy stone "fell from the sky with a big roar while the farmers worked in the rice field. "They say that they saw smoke who left the earth and fled. "

"We saw that the object has a strong magnetic properties, a certain brightness and weighs about 15 kilos, "said Ashok.

Meteorites are solid objects in space that have managed to cross the earth's atmosphere without disintegrating completely.

Indian experts have indicated that from time to time, some reach the Earth's surface, but that in recent years, no death related to this phenomenon.

In February 2013, a meteorite fell in the Urals, Russia. The shockwave of the accident caused a thousand wounded.