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Did a meteorite kill a man in India?

As far as we know, an object fell from the sky into the campus of an engineering college in the southern city of Vellore in Tamil Nadu state on Saturday.
The explosion left a crater on the ground, blew out the window panes of nearby buildings, the windshields of parked buses, shattered a water tank and sent debris flying. The victim, a bus driver, was reportedly standing near the site of impact and was killed. There appear to be no eyewitnesses to the moment of impact, but the college principal was among those who reached the spot first after hearing a loud blast.
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Indian scientists to verify Tamil Nadu meteorite death claim

Indian scientists have been asked to verify claims that a man died after being hit by a meteorite in southern Vellore city.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram said on Sunday that Kamraj, a bus driver, died after a meteorite fell on a college campus.
Scientists said tests were needed to confirm that the rock was a meteorite. 
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Vellore Rock Unlikely to Be A Meteorite, Says Astro Prof

Police, however, dismissed these initial eyewitness accounts as rumours. They put out the guesswork that the explosion was caused by gelatine sticks buried and abandoned amid the rocks at the time of construction of the college.
They said that the college's gardeners, Sasikumar(42) and Murali (26), were burnt garbage to clean up the garden and inadvertantly set off the unused gelatine sticks.
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Meteorite explosion killed Vellore college bus driver, Tamil Nadu government says

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.
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Experts alarmed over meteorite strike in Vellore

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A Meteorite Hit Tamil Nadu Man, Says Chief Minister Jayalalithaa

A day after a man died and three others were injured in a mysterious explosion in Vellore, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said the "mishap" was caused by a falling meteorite.
Kamaraj, a bus driver of the Bharathidasan Engineering College located near Natrampalli, had died on Saturday when an explosion was heard near the water tank.
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Meteorite did it: CM Jayalalithaa on Vellore death

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.
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One dies as 'meteorite' falls in Vellore

One person was killed and three others were injured when an object believed to a meteorite fell on the campus of a private engineering college near Natrampalli in Vellore district in northern Tamil Nadu early on Saturday.
According to police sources, a loud blast was heard near a water tank shortly after midnight on the Bharathidasan Engineering College premises in K.Bandarappalli village. Kamaraj, a college employee, who had gone to drink water suffered serious injuries and was declared dead when taken to the Vaniyambadi Government Hospital.
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Explosion kills one in TN engineering college

One person was killed and two others were injured in a yet unexplained blast on Saturday in the garden of an engineering college in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district. The incident took place in Bharathidasan Engineering College in the district. According to a police official, a three-feet-wide crater was created in the garden at the explosion spot.
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