Documents found in Turkey’s state archives have now been identified as the first recorded evidence of a meteorite killing a human. The evening of August 22, in 1888, an Ottoman village in what is now Iraq was neighbor to a cosmic attack. Letters written by local authorities describe how a nearby city witnessed a fireball in the sky. Then a shower of meteorite pieces plunged to Earth, falling “like rain.”
One man was killed, as well as another man getting paralyzed, and a nearby field’s crops were badly damaged.
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