This is the horrifying moment a man was impaled on the horns of a raging bull after trying to play hide and seek with it.
The one-and-a-half ton beast had just been released for a bull running event in Spain when it gored the festival goer on Tuesday.
The bull impaled the man’s torso and tossed him in the air after he tried to sneak around a pillar and play with it.
He was also tramped by the bull after he slipped while trying to dodge it.
Other festival goers who had sought cover on top of concrete columns watched on in horror.
They can be seen desperately waving jackets and colourful makeshift matador capes to try and distract the animal.
A man was impaled on the horns of a raging bull after trying to play hide and seek with it in Spain
The bull impaled the man’s torso and tossed him in the air after he tried to sneak around a pillar and play with it
Other festival goers who had sought cover on top of concrete columns watched on in horror
The bull eventually left the man alone and he was dragged away for urgent medical treatment, with puncture wounds to his abdomen, local media has reported.
One other festival-goer was seriously injured in the bull run and 12 more suffered minor injuries.
The incident occurred at an event in Tordesillas, Valladolid, where locals release a single bull for a run through the town before it is herded into a meadow.
The festival, known as Toro de la Pena, or Bull of the Virgin, has been held for centuries and is traditionally a way for young men to test their courage.
It used to end with the bull being lanced to death this was stopped in 2016 after protests from animal, rights groups.
It comes after footage released yesterday showed a 64-year-old man being gored in the scrotum at a bull running event in La Vall d’Uixó, north-east of Valencia.
The bull had just been released from its pen when it charged towards the man at breakneck speed.
The man was then held in the air for several seconds before the bull dumped him on the ground in front of shocked onlookers
The victim, identified as only F.M.N, suffered entry and exit wounds around his groin area in the goring
The bull had just been released from its pen when it charged towards the man at breakneck speed
Before the man had a chance to react, the bull picked him up with one of its horns from the other side of a metal barrier.
The man was then held in the air for several seconds before the bull dumped him on the ground in front of shocked onlookers.
The victim, identified only as F.M.N, suffered entry and exit wounds around his groin area and was taken to hospital for treatment.
An onsite medical team, as well as two doctors who were there as spectators, gave the man first aid.
He was conscious when he was taken to a hospital in nearby Villarreal and will undergo surgery, local media has reported.
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