Throughout history, there have been various claims of people being struck and killed by meteorites.
"To the best of our knowledge, we show the first proof of an event ever that a meteorite hit and killed a man and left paralyzed another on August 22, 1888 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, based on three manuscripts written in Ottoman Turkish that were extracted from the General Directorate of State Archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey," the authors wrote in the study.
In the study, the researchers analyze the three documents, which were all written by local authorities, providing separate and consistent accounts of the same event. These documents were recently transferred to a digital archive but they are written in Ottoman Turkish—a difficult-to-translate language—which would perhaps explain why they haven't been examined before.
Despite the fact that there is no material evidence of the meteor itself—some rocks from the impact site were reportedly sent to Ottoman authorities—the researchers say that the documents provide sufficient evidence that the the man's death was indeed caused by a piece of space debris.
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