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A meteorite that crashed in Peru has made dozens of villagers ill. Witnesses told of a fiery ball falling from the sky and smashing into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border at the weekend. Officials have said it was a meteorite. Jorge Lopez, director of the health department in the state of Puno, said 200 people have suffered headaches, nausea and respiratory problems caused by "toxic" fumes from the resulting crater, which is about 66 feet wide and 16 feet deep. "This is caused by the gas they have inhaled after the crash," Mr Lopez said. "People are scared," he said. Villagers went to the site after hearing a crash that they thought might be an airplane. Now they fear the meteor may be contaminating water supplies as well, and could present a danger to livestock. "We ourselves went near the crater and now we've got irritated throats and itching noses," Mr Lopez said. Eight doctors had been sent to investigate and treat the sick