Man gored to death in Spanish bull run

Posted 09/17/2010

A charging bull has gored a 58-year-old man and killed him, Spanish officials said, in the third death this month during bull runs in Spain.

The beast's horn spiked the victim's abdomen during the bull run held as part of annual festivities in the south-eastern city of Albacete, a spokesman for the representative of the central government in the region said.

The death comes 11 days after a bull gored a 41-year-old man in the chest during a bull run in the central town of Villaseca de la Sagra.

Three days later a bull pierced the neck of a 48-year-old woman who poked her head through a barrier during a bull run in the town of Arganda del Rey near Madrid.

Towns across Spain hold festivals in which crowds of people show their bravura by running ahead a pack of bulls, which thunder through the streets to the bull ring for a fight.

Thirty-seven people, including 11 foreigners, were injured this year during Spain's most famous bull run, held every July in Pamplona.

- AFP

From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/17/3015381.htm?section=justin