Where did the debris land? The remains of the rocket – most of which broke up on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere - landed in the Indian Ocean, just west of the Maldives at at 10:24 Beijing time (02:24 GMT) on Sunday 9 May.

Where did the Chinese rocket land?

Debris from a large Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives early Sunday morning, China's space administration announced. It said most of the debris had burned up on re-entry. It was not immediately clear whether any of what remained had landed on any of the Maldives's 1,192 islands.

Where did the rocket debris land?

The remains of a Chinese rocket that was hurtling back towards Earth have crashed into the Indian Ocean, the country's space agency says. The bulk of the rocket was destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere, but state media reported that debris landed just west of the Maldives on Sunday.