Revellers hurl tomatoes at each other in Spanish town’s Tomatina party

The annual tomato festival Tomatina in the village of Bunol (Alberto Saiz/AP)

Some 15,000 people, including many tourists, pelted each other with tomatoes on Wednesday as Spain’s annual Tomatina street battle took place in the eastern town of Bunol.

Workers on lorries tipped 120 tons of overripe tomatoes into the main street of the town for participants to throw.