Yahoo News Shocking footage shows man gored to death in Spain after taunting bull at Easter festival
This is the shocking moment a man was gored to death after he taunted a bull during an Easter festival in southern Spain.
The 45-year-old victim died after his lung was pierced by the horn of the animal, who gored him as he was thrown to the ground.
Hundreds of people at Arcos de la Frontera watched on helplessly as the man was fatally injured, in what is the first bull-running death of 2018.
The man, wearing a bright yellow top, was seen taunting the bull, named Trapero, before he was gored in the chest and thigh.
People watching dragged him away from the animal but medical staff who treated him were unable to save the man.
He was transferred to a hospital near to the Andalusian town but pronounced dead on arrival.
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Another man was gored in the stomach by the same bull but his injury was not life-threatening, according to The Local.
The festival in Arcos de la Frontera is celebrated on Easter Sunday and kicks off the bullfighting season in Andalusia.
Bull-running is included in fiestas in hundreds of towns across Spain and while injuries are reported, deaths are rare.
The bulls running through the streets during the fiestas are killed in the same day in bullfights.
Some 2,000 bullfights are held every year in Spain, but its popularity seems to be on the decline.
According to El Paid, audiences for bullfights are falling while TV audiences have also dipped to below one million viewers.
An Ipsos MORI poll conducted in 2016 found that 19% of adults in Spain aged 16-65 said they supported bullfighting, compared to 58% who opposed it.
