Matador gored to death during bullfight
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - In this May 16, 2011 file photo, Spanish bullfighter Victor Barrio performs during a bullfight of the San Isidro's fair at the Las Ventas Bullring in Madrid. The matador has been fatally gored in Spain during a bullfight in an eastern town ââ¬â the first professional bullfighter to be killed in the ring in more than three decades. The 29-year-old Barrio was pronounced dead late Saturday, July 9, 2016, by a surgeon at the Teruel bullring. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File) (AP2011)
A matador was killed during a bullfight in southwestern France on Saturday, media reports said.
Ivan Fandiño was gored in the lung by one of the bull’s horns, according to a report on BFM TV, a French news channel.
As the bull passed the matador during the battle in a corrida in the town Aire-sur-l’Adour, Fandiño, 36, tripped on his cloak.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The bull gored his foe in the chest as he fell to the ground.
Fandiño, of Spain’s Basque region, suffered two heart attacks in the ambulance and died later in a hospital in Mont de Marsan, about 65 miles east of Bayonne, a medical source told AFP.
Earlier in the event, Fandiño was triumphed over a different bull.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}For that, he was rewarded with the bull’s cut-off ear, in line with Spanish bullfighting tradition.
This story originally appeared on The New York Post.