20,000 person tomato fight leaves Spanish streets running red

More than 20,000 people have pelted each other in the street with tomatoes in this year’s Tomatina as the Spanish event celebrates its 70th birthday.

At the annual fiesta in the eastern town of Bunol on Wednesday, 175 tonnes of ripe tomatoes were offloaded from seven trucks into the crowd packing the streets for an hour-long battle.