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Indian officials are saying that an explosion that happened at a private Indian engineering college on Saturday, which killed a bus driver for the school, was caused by a falling meteorite. If the claims prove true, it would be the first such death in recorded human history.

The man, named as Kamaraj in local news stories, was reportedly walking near the school when the explosion happened. The blast dented the windows of several nearby busses and injured three other people. The school is located in Tamil Nadu, a region in southern Indian that is home to about 70 million people.

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“A mishap occurred yesterday when a meteorite fell in the campus of a private engineering college in Vellore district’s K Pantharappalli village,” the region’s Chief Minister’s Office said on Sunday in a statement, NDTV reported.

Officials and scientists are currently working to confirm that it was, in fact, a meteorite.