A matador has been fatally gored in Spain during a bullfight – the first professional bullfighter to be killed in the ring in more than three decades.
Victor Barrio, 29, was pronounced dead late on Saturday by a surgeon at the bullring in the eastern town of Teruel.
Barrio was first gored in the thigh by the 1,166lbs bull’s left horn and his body was flipped over.
He was gored a second time in the chest and the blow penetrated a lung and his aorta.
Doctors were at this side almost immediately, but attempts to save his life were unsuccessful.
His wife of two years, a leading right-wing councillor in their home town of Sepulveda in Segovia North West of the Spanish capital and a self-confessed bullfighting fan, was said to be “devastated”.
Raquel Sanz had advertised the bullfight her husband died at on her Facebook page.
The 32-year-old posted a message less than a week before the tragedy advertising a coach trip locals were organising to Teruel, which included a lunch and tickets to the bullfight which formed part of an annual festival in the town called the Feria del Angel.
She said: “Have you got plans for next Saturday, July 9? Come to Teruel. Their annual festival is very famous and they compete, and not only in respect of dates, with San Fermin.
“And to cap it all Victor Barrio is taking part.”
The goring was broadcast live on television.
He was the first professional matador to die during a bullfight in Spain since 1985.
