Spanish Festival : Spectator gored to death by bull

A 62 year old man has been gored to death by a bull during the famous Spanish festival. The tragic incident happened in central Spain.

The man was killed in s bull run in the town of Cuellar, 155 kilometres north of Madrid, on Thursday.

The town mayor, Carlos Frailesaid said to local media that the man who had suffered severe and deadly horn blows in his chest and neck could not be saved.

The man was just a viewer of the bull run, as per reports. It is reported that he was rammed into a field and gored. Another spectator, who was afraid of being gored climbed onto a wall, and was saved.

In Pamplona festival, which was made famous worldwide by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises”, eight people were gored and 35 were injured this year.

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