London: Tom Cruise's latest movie War of the Worlds has been blamed for causing mass panic in Siberia, after the local people mistook a tornado for an alien invasion.
Residents of the Khabarovsk region in Siberia, thought that an alien invasion was engulfing them, after freak winds started blowing, flattening trees and destroying property.
Officials of the Emergency services blamed the fear of an alien invasion on the recent showing of the Tom Cruise epic.
"It was a strange phenomenon and many people jumped to the wrong conclusion and believed it had been caused by alien space ships landing in the area", Fox News quoted Natalia Lukash, spokesperson for Russia's Far-Eastern Emergency Situations Centre, as saying. ANI