In Video and Pictures: 'It was like a scene from the Armageddon movie': More than 500 people injured, buildings smashed and Russian mobile network wiped out as meteor shower causes widespread panic!

Large object flashed across the sky at 9.20am local time
Pictures show a streak of smoke followed by several bright blasts of flames
Three people had been hospitalised in a serious condition
6,000 square feet of a roof at a zinc factory collapsed
Scientists are investigating whether or not the strike is related to Asteroid 2012 DA14, which is due to skim the orbit of the Earth later today

PUBLISHED: 07:03 GMT, 15 February 2013 | UPDATED: 10:16 GMT, 15 February 2013

A terrifying meteorite shower left more than 500 people injured, buildings devastated and the mobile network wiped out when it hit Russia this morning.

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.

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.'

Pictures show a streak of smoke followed by several bright blasts of flames and eyewitnesses spoke of several devastating explosions.

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