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FOG BLOG WORLD NEWS LOG: CHINESE ROCKET FRAGMENTS CRASH INTO INDIAN OCEAN!

Debris from a Chinese rocket fell into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives early Sunday morning, China’s space administration announced.


The agency said most of the debris had burned up on re-entry, but it did not specify whether what remained had landed in the ocean or on one of the Maldives’s 1,192 islands, The New York Times reported.


The Long March 5B carrier rocket had an estimated landing area of 72.47°E longitude and 2.65°N latitude, just west of the Maldives, China’s National Space Agency said in a post on WeChat.

There were no immediate reports of damage from falling debris, The Washington Post reported.



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