Mystery over an explosion in Vellore district has been solved after the Tamil Nadu government confirmed that a meteorite fell on a private engineering college premises on Saturday killing a bus driver and injuring two gardeners and a student.
Chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday announced a solatium of Rs 1 lakh for the family of Kamaraj, a bus driver of Bharathidasan Engineering College at Natrampalli, who was killed and Rs 25,000 for three others, who were injured in the explosion. more Here
THIS
may be the first official confirmation of an object from space killing a
living thing on earth this side of the 20th century.
On Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa issued a statement saying the death of a man on the premises of a private engineering college in Vellore district the day before had been caused by a meteorite.
“A mishap occurred yesterday when a meteorite fell in the campus of a
private engineering college in Vellore district’s K Pantharappalli
village…,” she said in a release here, adding that she had ordered the
district administration and hospital officials to offer the best
treatment to the three injured.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jayalalithaa-vellore-explosion-tamil-nadu-cm/#sthash.HRVxqa8T.dpuf
On Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa issued a statement saying the death of a man on the premises of a private engineering college in Vellore district the day before had been caused by a meteorite.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jayalalithaa-vellore-explosion-tamil-nadu-cm/#sthash.HRVxqa8T.dpuf
THIS
may be the first official confirmation of an object from space killing a
living thing on earth this side of the 20th century.
On Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa issued a statement saying the death of a man on the premises of a private engineering college in Vellore district the day before had been caused by a meteorite.
“A mishap occurred yesterday when a meteorite fell in the campus of a
private engineering college in Vellore district’s K Pantharappalli
village…,” she said in a release here, adding that she had ordered the
district administration and hospital officials to offer the best
treatment to the three injured.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jayalalithaa-vellore-explosion-tamil-nadu-cm/#sthash.HRVxqa8T.dpuf
On Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa issued a statement saying the death of a man on the premises of a private engineering college in Vellore district the day before had been caused by a meteorite.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jayalalithaa-vellore-explosion-tamil-nadu-cm/#sthash.HRVxqa8T.dpuf
THIS
may be the first official confirmation of an object from space killing a
living thing on earth this side of the 20th century.
On Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa issued a statement saying the death of a man on the premises of a private engineering college in Vellore district the day before had been caused by a meteorite.
“A mishap occurred yesterday when a meteorite fell in the campus of a
private engineering college in Vellore district’s K Pantharappalli
village…,” she said in a release here, adding that she had ordered the
district administration and hospital officials to offer the best
treatment to the three injured.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jayalalithaa-vellore-explosion-tamil-nadu-cm/#sthash.HRVxqa8T.dpuf
On Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa issued a statement saying the death of a man on the premises of a private engineering college in Vellore district the day before had been caused by a meteorite.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jayalalithaa-vellore-explosion-tamil-nadu-cm/#sthash.HRVxqa8T.dpuf