-- LIMA -- Dozens of people living in a Peruvian town near Lake Titicaca reported vomiting and headaches after they went to look at a crater apparently left by a meteorite that crashed down over the weekend, health officials said on Tuesday.I think this is where the alien microbes infect all the dummies who come up and sniff the crater... and then we have to wait for some unlikely Hollywood anti-hero to save our fragile, not-too-bright asses.
After hearing a loud noise, people went to see what had happened and found a crater 20 metres wide and 7 metres deep on an uninhabited plateau near Carancas in the Puno region.
Experts from Peru's Geophysical Institute are on their way to the area 1,300 km south of Lima to verify whether it was a meteorite.
"We've examined about 100 people who got near to the meteorite crater who have vomiting and headaches because of gasses coming out of there," Jorge Lopez, health director in Puno, said.
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