Three matadors were gored in Madrid on Tuesday evening causing a bullfight to be called off early for the first time in 35 years.
David Mora was gored repeatedly when the first bull of the evening entered Las Ventas bullring during Tuesday’s San Isidro festival.
The 33-year-old torero was tossed on the horns of Deslio, a fighting bull weighing 532 kgs – just over half a tonne – before being pummeled into the ground by the enraged animal.
Horrified spectators watched as fellow bullfighters used their capes to try to separate the bull from the felled matador, who suffered two serious gorings, a foot-long gash in his thigh that severed the femoral vein and a four inch wound to his upper arm.
Minutes later, the evening’s second matador, Antonio Nazare, 29, was caught on the horns of the evening’s second bull, causing “injuries to his right knee with probable ligament damage,” the medical team at Las Ventas reported.
Shortly after he was carried from the ring, the third matador, Saul Jimenez Fortes, 24, bravely faced the same bull – only to be similarly gored.
The young bullfighter suffered two serious injuries when the horns pierced his thigh and hip, Telegraph informs.
