This is the horror moment an elderly woman was gored to death by a rampaging bull while she was crossing a square during a Spanish festival.
The 60-year-old, who was wearing a red dress, was knocked unconscious as she hit her head on the ground after being attacked.
Onlookers rushed to her aid and moved her to a safer area before emergency responders made desperate attempts to save her life.
The woman, who has not yet been named, is said to have suffered a gory injury to an armpit, but she tragically died as she was being rushed to hospital.
The incident happened during an annual festival in the Spanish town of Enguera, located close to the east coast city of Valencia.
A 60-year-old woman was knocked unconscious and gored by a rampaging bull and later died on the way to hospital
Onlookers rushed to her aid and moved her to a safer area before emergency responders made desperate attempts to save her life
Footage of the sickening moment she was knocked to the ground appeared to show she had become distracted and strayed into the area where the bull had been let loose so revellers could try to outrun it.
The town council responded by cancelling some of the events linked to its patron saint festivities following what it described as a ‘tragic incident’ as critics went online to question the security arrangements in place that had allowed the woman to stray unchallenged into the area where she lost her life.
Enguera’s mayoress Matilde Marin said the town was in a ‘state of shock.’
Yesterday afternoon’s tragedy occurred five days after a 74-year-old man was killed and three people including a young girl were injured when a bull charged them in Pantoja near Toledo south of Madrid.
The animal attacked them after escaping from an enclosed area set up for revellers as part of a Running of the Bulls-style event.
Last September a high-ranking executive for Spanish ceramic wall and floor tiles firm Pamesa was gored to death by a bull at a festival near Valencia.
Jose Antonio Subies, 61, died at a hospital in the city after suffering gore injuries which affected his liver and one of his lungs.
He was the chief executive officer of Pamesa’s South American group.
Mr Subies’ 63-year-old friend Vicente Fontestad, president of a citrus fruit firm, was injured after being attacked by the same bull and had to be rushed to hospital for a leg operation.
Footage of the drama showed the two men being lifted up in the air by the bull, called Cocinero which in English translates as Cook, after it was set loose on the streets in La Pobla de Fornals near Valencia.
Events using bulls called Bous al Correr where revellers try to dodge the animals when they are let loose on the streets remain extremely popular in the Valencian region which covers the provinces of Castellon, Valencia and Alicante.
Many deaths have occurred at events like these over the years where revellers have been gored or knocked down by bulls and hit their heads on the ground.
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