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SUBJ: 'STRANGE ROAR1 PRECEDES 'MYSTERIOUS BUST' IN SASOVO
SOURCE: MOSCOW TASS IN3 GHTPREXT:
Y TASS CORRESPONDENT ANATOLIY KAKOVKIN))
ASOVO, RYAZAN REGION IN CENTRAL RUSSIA APRILASSHATTERING EXPLOSION SHOOK THIS SMALL TOWN IN THE HEART OF RUSSIA SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT TODAY, KNOCKING OUT MOST WINDOWS AND LEAVING SOME LOCALS SLIGHTLY INJURED BY SPLINTERED GUSS.
ACCORDING TO EARLY REPORTS, NO-ONE WAS SERIOUSLY HURT BY THE MYSTERIOUS BUST, WHICH TOOK PUCE JUST OUTSIDE SASOVO IN THE RYAZAN REGION.
THOSE LIVING IN HIGH-RISES FELT THE BUILDINGS ROCK HEAVILY AS IF HIT BI AN EARTHQUAKE, BUT NO DAMAGE TYPICAL OF EARTH TREMORS WAS REGISTERED.
THE EXPLOSION, PRECEDEDTRANGE ROAR.UGE CRATERILOMETERS FROM THE TOWN. THE CRATERETERS DEEP ANDETERS IN DIAMETER.
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EXPERTS FROM THE REGIONAL COMMISSION ON EMERGENCIES RUSHED TO THE SITE TO EXPLORE IT AND TAXE GROUND AND ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLES. THEY DID NOT, HOWEVER, DETECT ANY CHANGES IN EITHER RADIATION LEVELS OR THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE AIR.
THE MILITARY, FOR THEIR PART, REPORTED NO UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS OVER THE AREA.
THE UNUSUAL FORM OF THE CRATER, WHICHIG BUMP RIGHT IN ITS CENTRE. AS WELL AS LARGE CHUNKS OF EARTH REMAINING UNBROKEN ALMOST RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITYOMB BLAST OR THE EXPLOSION OF AN ARTILLERY SHELL, ACCORDING TO SASOVO MAYOR A. ROZHKOV.
HE TOLD TASSELEPHONE INTERVIEW THAT SCRAPS OF PAPER BAGS FOUND NEARBY SUGGEST THAT SOME SALTPETER, WHICH CAN SELF-EXPLODE UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, MIGHT HAVE BEEN STORED IN THE FIELD AND GONE UP IN THE AIR.
THE FINAL CONCLUSION IS EXPECTED FROH THE EMERGENCY TASK FORCE INVESTIGATING THE BUST-
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