Raging Bull As Festival Goer Brutally Gored
Across much of Spain, September is a busy month for fiestas including the many featuring traditional bullrunning. Inevitably there are those who take part that suffer injuries – some serious.
This is the agonising moment a festival goer is impaled on the horns of a furious raging bull in front of a horrified crowd in northern Spain after trying to play hide and seek with it.
The festival, in Tordesillas, Valladolid province, releases a single bull for a run through the town before it is herded into a meadow where it is surrounded by would-be matadors.
But brutal video footage from this year’s event on 17th September shows how one man was badly gored as he apparently tried to tease the one-and-a-half-tonne animal.
As other festival goers leap onto the top of concrete columns for cover he is seen sneaking around a pillar apparently trying to play with the bull.
But as he tries to dodge the charging toro he slips and within moments the terrifyingly powerful fighting bull is on top of him.
The shocking footage shows the bull’s horns impaling the man’s torso and repeatedly tossing him into the air like a rag doll.
Other festival-goers surround the bull desperately waving jackets and colourful makeshift matador’s capes to distract the animal.
Finally, the bull leaves his victim and he’s dragged away for urgent medical treatment, with puncture wounds to his abdomen, reports local media.
There have been no updates on the medical condition of the victim, a waiter in a local restaurant.
One other festival-goer was seriously injured in the event and 12 more suffered minor injuries, reports local media.
The festival, known as Toro de la Pena, or Bull of the Virgin, has been held in the town for centuries and is traditionally a way for young men to test their courage.
It used to end with the bull being lanced to death by picadors but was changed in 2016 to let the bull live after protests from animal, rights groups.
