Large object flashed across the sky at 9.20am local time

Pictures show a streak of smoke followed by several bright blasts of flames

Russian Ministry of Emergencies says around 950 people have been injured

82 of the injured are children and two are in intensive care

Landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a neighbouring town

Three people had been hospitalised in a serious condition

6,000 square feet of a roof at a zinc factory collapsed

Same day as Asteroid 2012 DA14, which is due to skim Earth’s orbit tonight

A terrifying meteorite shower left more than 950 people injured, buildings devastated and the mobile network wiped out when it hit Russia this morning.

Brightly burning rocks could be seen for miles as they crashed at around 9.20am local time and one bystander described it ‘like a scene from the Armageddon movie.’

The meteorite is believed to have landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in the neighbouring Chelyabinsk region.

The city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow and close to the Kazakhstan border, took the brunt of the super sonic impact.

Terrifying: Brightly burning rocks could be seen for hundreds of kilometres as they crashed at around 9.20am local time and one bystander described it ‘like a scene from the Armageddon movie’

Spectacular sky: The Urals region was struck by falling meteorite fragments which fell in the city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow and close to the Kazakhstan border

Before and after: A video showed a street scene in Russia before the meteorite shower struck. Seconds later the street was lit up in a haze of bright white as the large fireball exploded

Speed: Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said the meteorite was travelling at a speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second and that such events were hard to predict

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