Teen fatally gored in chest at Spain bull running event

A MAN has been gored to death during the running of bulls at a festival in Spain.

Ivan Tejero Morales, 19, died instantly after being gored in the chest in the town of Fuentesauco during a pre-dawn bull-run held as part of the town’s annual festival. The death came ahead the famed San Fermin festival in the northern city of Pamplona, which starts today and sees dozens of people injured annually.

Last year’s festival saw the first goring death in nearly 15 years. However, the Pamplona bullfighting festival is in danger of being overshadowed by a crisis in the sport. A proposed regional bullfighting ban combined with grim economic times to send a chill through the national pastime. From today for a week Pamplona comes under the international spotlight with its bullfights preceded by thousands of thrillseekers chased by bulls that invariably end up goring some people on cobblestoned streets en route to bloody deaths in the ring.