Somebody placed a huge sell-order which crashed the price. This caused stop-loss and margin calls to be triggered, adding a huge amount of market order sells, which crashed the price to effectively zero (more sell orders than buy orders on the exchange).
Some lucky people (or the people who orchestrated the crash) snuck in some super low buy orders that got matched.
The price had recovered within a few minutes (once all the margin calls had executed). It just goes to show the risk of trading on margin