More deaths during the bull races typical of the festivals that are traditionally celebrated during the patronal festivities in the Iberian peninsula. Yesterday afternoon in the province of Valencia a woman was hit by a bull’s horns in the armpit and died while being transported to hospital, the civil guard informs.
It happened around 5.30pm in the town of Enguera, in south-eastern Spain. According to an initial reconstruction based on the testimonies of those present, taken from the Europa Press agency, the woman – whose details have not been disclosed – by mistake crossed an area of the enclosure reserved for the running of the bulls in a street in the center of the country and found herself in front of one of the animals, which gored her, leaving her unconscious. Rescued by the emergency services, she died during the transfer to the Luis Alcanyis hospital in Xativa, a nearby municipality.
After the incident, the municipality of Enguera suspended the patronal celebrations and postponed the processions planned in honor of the Virgin of Fatima and the fireworks until Saturday 5 October, the Municipality informs. Furthermore, the municipal work commission for a restrictive reform of the regulatory decree of the ‘Bous al Carrer’, the bull races, typical of the Valencian Community and the Ebro area, in Catalonia, was postponed. whose exam was scheduled today.
The woman who died in Enguera is the second victim in Spain in a week during a bullfight, much contested by animal rights associations. On September 24, a 74-year-old man was gored to death and three people, including a little girl, were injured during an ‘encierrò’, a race in front of the bulls in Pantoja, in the province of Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha. After having climbed over the fence of the itinerary, set up in a street in the centre, the animal had thrown itself against the public watching the demonstration and was then killed by the police.