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Top Spanish matador gored to death during televised bullfight

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<div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-top" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div><br/><div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/07/top-spanish-matador-gored-to-death-during-televised-bullfight/spanish-matador-victor-barrio-was-gored-to-death-by-a-bull/"><img alt="" src="http://kickerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Spanish-matador-Victor-Barrio-was-gored-to-death-by-a-bull-600x264.jpg" title="Spanish matador Victor Barrio was gored to death by a bull"/></a> <span class="wp-caption-text">Image capture of video by ABC news</span> </div><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside><ul><li><strong>A top Spanish matador was gored to death in a bullfight being shown live on TV</strong></li><br/><li><strong>Victor Barrio, a Segovian matador, is the first to die in a bullfight in more than thirty years</strong></li><br/><li><strong>The last matador to die in a corrida in Spain was Jose Cubero in 1985</strong></li><br/></ul><p>An award-winning Spanish matador was gored to death by a bull during a “corrida” or bullfight that was being broadcast live on television in Teruel, Aragon in Eastern Spain on Saturday, July 9.</p><br/><p>Professional bullfighter Victor Barrio is the first matador to be killed by a bull during a corrida in more than three decades. The last matador to die in a bullfight in Spain was Jose Cubero in 1985.</p><br/><p>According to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/09/matador-gored-to-death-in-spanish-bullfight-is-first-bullfighter/">Telegraph’s</a> David Millward, the 29-year-old Barrio was executing a maneuver known as “muletazo” when the bull named Lorenzo, who was already struggling then, caught the matador on the side; sending him tumbling down to the ground.</p><br/><p>The bull caught Barrio off guard after a gust of wind affected his waving of the crutch, the  small  cape  attached  to a  stick used  by the  matador  during  the  final stages of a bullfight.</p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-middle"><br/><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p>The spectators, including Barrio’s wife, Raquel Sanz, were shocked as the 529-kilo bull rammed a horn through the top bullfighter’s chest. The grisly goring was shown live on TV, and viewers have uploaded footage of the scene on social media.</p><br/><p>Other toreros came to the rescue and lured Lorenzo away from Barrio who lay bleeding in the sand. The unconscious matador was rushed to a hospital but doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. He died due to the perforation of the lung and thoracic aorta.</p><br/><p>Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy paid his condolences to Barrio through his Twitter account.</p><br/><p>Tributes to the fallen bullfighter poured in from all over Spain, but there are others who were critical of the sport.</p><br/><p>“Victor Barrio was a bullfighter. As far as I’m concerned, he got what was coming. It’s one of the cruelest, most awful so called sports,” tweeted someone who uses the handle “savannafairnie.”</p><br/><p>A certain Lydia offered no sympathy to Victor Barrio and called for the “disgusting” sport to be banned.</p><br/><p>“I have no sympathy for the #matador who was gored to death by the bull today. It’s a disgusting sport and should be banned!” she tweeted.</p><br/><p>A Mrs Drakers tweeted: “Maybe the death of Victor Barrio might finally see an end to the horrific “sport” of bullfighting.”</p><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside> <center> </center><br/><p><strong><a href="https://blockads.fivefilters.org">Let’s block ads!</a></strong> <a href="https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads">(Why?)</a></p><br/><p><a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/07/top-spanish-matador-gored-to-death-during-televised-bullfight/" rel="nofollow">Kicker Daily News</a></p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-bottom" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div>

Image capture of video by ABC news A top Spanish matador was gored to death in a bullfight being shown live on TV Victor Barrio, a Segovi...