This is the horror moment an elderly woman was gored to death by a raging bull as she crossed a square during a Spanish festival.
The 60-year-old woman, who was wearing a red dress, was knocked unconscious after hitting her head on the ground after being attacked.
Onlookers rushed to her aid and moved her to a safer area before rescuers made desperate attempts to save her life.
The woman, who has not yet been identified, is said to have suffered a bloody wound to her armpit but tragically died while being rushed to hospital.
The incident occurred during an annual festival in the Spanish town of Enguera, located near the east coast city of Valencia.
A 60-year-old woman was knocked unconscious and gored by an angry bull and later died on the way to hospital.
Onlookers rushed to her aid and moved her to a safer area before emergency services made desperate attempts to save her life.
Footage of the sickening moment she was thrown to the ground appeared to show she had become distracted and wandered towards the area where the bull had been released so revelers could try to escape from it.
The city council responded by canceling some of the events related to the patron saint’s festivities after what it described as a “tragic incident,” when critics online questioned the security measures in place that had allowed the woman to enter the area where she was unopposed. . lost his life.
Enguera Mayor Matilde Marín said the city was in a “state of shock.”
Yesterday afternoon’s tragedy occurred five days after a 74-year-old man died and three people, including a young woman, were injured when a bull charged them in Pantoja, near Toledo, south of Madrid.
The animal attacked them after escaping from a closed area set up for revelers as part of a bullfighting-style event.
Last September, a senior manager at the Spanish ceramic wall and flooring company Pamesa was gored to death by a bull at a party near Valencia.
José Antonio Subies, 61, died in a city hospital after suffering bleeding wounds that affected his liver and one of his lungs.
He was the general director of the South American group of Pamesa.
Vicente Fontestad, a friend of Subies, 63 years old and president of a citrus company, was injured after being attacked by the same bull and had to be rushed to the hospital to undergo leg surgery.
Footage of the drama showed the two men being lifted into the air by the bull, called Cocinero, which translates to Cook in English, after it was released on the streets of La Pobla de Fornals, near Valencia.
Bull events called Bous al Correr, where revelers try to avoid the animals when they are released into the streets, remain very popular in the Valencian region, which covers the provinces of Castellón, Valencia and Alicante.
Many deaths have occurred at events like these over the years, where revelers were gored or knocked down by bulls and hit their heads on the ground.
