Hundreds of people in Peru have needed treatment after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, officials say.
They say the object left a deep crater after crashing down over the weekend near the town of Carancas in the Andes.
People who have visited scene have been complaining of headaches, vomiting and nausea after inhaling gases.
A team of scientists is on its way to the site to collect samples and verify whether it was indeed a meteorite.
"It [the object] is buried in the earth," local resident Heber Mamani told the BBC.
"That is why we are asking for an analysis because we are worried for our people. They are afraid. A bull is dead and some other animals are already sick," he said.
The incident began on Saturday night, when people near Carancas in the Puno region, some 1,300km (800 miles) south of Lima, reported seeing a fireball in the sky coming towards them.
The object then hit the ground, leaving a 30m (98ft) wide and 6m (20ft) deep crater.
The crater spewed what officials described as fetid, noxious gases.
An engineer from the Peruvian Nuclear Energy Institute told the AFP news agency no radiation had been detected from the crater and ruled out the fallen object being a satellite.
Renan Ramirez said: "It is a conventional meteorite that, when it struck, produced gases by fusing with elements of the terrain."
The gases are believed to have affected the health of hundreds of people who visited the site.
Most of the victims have been complaining of headaches, vomiting and nausea.
Honorio Campoblanco, one of Peru's leading geologists, called on the authorities to stop people going near the crash site.
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A meteorite has struck a remote part of Peru and carved a large crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill, according to local press reports.
A fireball streaked across the Andean sky late on Saturday night and crashed into a field near Carancas, a sparsely populated highland wilderness near Lake Titicaca on the border with Bolivia, witnesses said.
The orange streak and loud bang were initially thought to be a plane crashing. When farmers went to investigate, however, they found a crater at least 10m wide and 5m deep, but no sign of wreckage.
Ej, ja sam ucio svahilji i iz istog isao na popravni.
Molio bi te da text prevedes na naski ili svahilji, jer me jako interesuje, vidim spominje se neko pranje i spremanje?? Citiram, PERU, pa METEO, znaci nesto se pomelo, pa crush...kontam da nije krushka?
Oprali i pomeli krusku...to nema veze sa mozgom, zato me i zainteresovalo..
Vidis, forum sluzi da ljudi komuniciraju na svom jeziku i da svako iskaze svoje misljenje i tako...a ti si samo copy/pastovao temu sa nekog sajta.
Jako te ljubazno molim da lepo to na naski napises, jer ja samo taj jezik imam, i ovaj u ustima. Mozes i na svahiljiju da napises, ali trebace mi prevodioc za to.
Mislim da ja nisam jedini na forumu koji ne poznaje francuski jezik, jezik u kome si ti opisao ciscenje krushke.
Mnogo hvala unapred i vec se radujem tekstu..