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From Adelaide Now...:
About 200 villagers have fallen ill from mysterious gases that spewed from a crater after a meteorite crashed in southeastern Peru, but no radiation has been detected, officials and scientists say.
Scores of residents of the farming village of Carancas began vomiting and complaining of headaches and dizziness after the space object struck the area on Saturday, creating a crater eight metres deep and 20 metres wide.
"We have determined with precision instruments that there is no radiation," said engineer Renan Ramirez of the Peruvian Nuclear Energy Institute.
Mr Ramirez said the illnesses may have been triggered by sulfur, arsenic or other toxins that may have melted in the extreme heat produced by the meteorite strike.
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