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  • Man deadly pierced by flaming-horned bull in Navajas, Spain

    When you mess with a furious bull it is very likely to get its horns!!! A man was trampled and fatally gored by a blazing-horned bull during a festival in eastern Spain on Saturday.

    Many cities in eastern and north-eastern Spain celebrate religious events with “Toros embolados” -bulls featuring flaming horns. During such festivals, the organizers attach balls of flaming wax, or fireworks to the animals’ horns before they are let free through the narrow streets and squares.

    A bull gored a man at Spanish festival (Malene Thyssen/Wikimedia)
    A bull gored a man at Spanish festival (Malene Thyssen/Wikimedia)
    The bulls run erratically thus reacting to flames or fireworks. Unlike other events of this type, the bulls are not killed at the end of the show.

    Jose Vicente Torres, the mayor of Navajas -a city with a population of 730 people-, said that a 45-year-old man from Alboraia (a town located 70 km to the south), stumbled just as the animals were released. A bull attacked the man, then stepped on his head causing “irreversible damage”. Emergency services were unable to save the life of the victim.
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    Mayor offered condolences to the family but said he would not cancel the similar events scheduled for Sunday morning.

    “Although our town is small, many people come from all over to see our festivities dedicated to St. Anton” said Torres, adding that the flags with black ribbons were placed at city hall as a sign of mourning and respect.

    The local parliament of the catalan North-Eastern region banned the bullfighting in July 2010, following a campaign organized by animal rights activists. The ban came into force on 1 January 2011. The authorities then adopted a new legislation that protects the tradition of bulls with flaming horns. Critics labeled the ban as a hypocrite law.