Bullfighter was fatally gored in Spain in an eastern town – the first professional matador to be killed in the ring since 1985.
Victor Barrio, a 29-year-old professional bullfighter, was killed on Saturday when a bull’s horn pierced his chest in front of spectators as he competed in a fight in the town of Teruel.
His death, shown live on television, was confirmed on the website of Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring, where Barrio began as an apprentice bullfighter in 2010.
In the southeastern village of Pedreguer near Valencia, a 28-year-old Spaniard was killed during a bull-run, in which people risk life and limb by racing alongside specially-bred fighting bulls through narrow streets.
A bull’s horn pierced his lung and heart as he was trying to help another runner during the event, in which a man was killed last year, a spokesman for the regional government said.
Separately, four people were gored by bulls at the world-famous festival in the town of Pamplona on Saturday and yesterday.