Renowned Spanish matador Ivan Fandino dies after bull’s horn punctures his lung
Ivan Fandino stumbled after tripping on a cape used in a turn to engage and distract the specially-bred fighting bull
Renowned Spanish bullfighter Ivan Fandino has died in hospital after being gored by a bull during a fight in southwestern France.
The 36-year-old stumbled in the bullring Saturday after catching his feet in his cloak and was gored by the bull, whose horn punctured his lung.
The Basque fighter was performing at the Aire-sur-l’Adour bullfighting festival in France with fellow matadors Juan Del Alamo and Thomas Dufau.
Fandino had won an earlier fight and cut off the bull’s ear. He was photographed being carried away from the scene by his colleagues with blood seeping through his embroidered traditional costume.
Hospital authorities declined to comment but an independent medical source said that Fandino had suffered two heart attacks in the ambulance and died later in hospital in the nearby town of Mont-de-Marsan.
The last time a bullfighter was killed while performing was in July 2016 when Spanish matador Victor Barrio, 29, was gored in the chest live on television. Just over a month earlier, 64-year-old Mexican fighter El Pana died after weeks in hospital, having also been gored in the chest.