Bull Charges the Stands, Injures 40

A bull leapt into the stands at a bull ring in Spain yesterday, tearing through the crowd and injuring 40 people. He was eventually subdued and killed with the help of an ex-bull fighter who happened to be in the stands, the New York Times reports. While most of the injuries were minor, one man was gored in the back, another suffered a crushed vertebrae, and a 10-year-old boy remains in intensive care.

The bull was to take part in an event in which people, mostly young men, attempt to provoke a bull and then dodge it as it charges them. In an amateur video, it appears that some in the crowd of about 3,500 were also taunting the bull. In high-resolution photos posted here however, you can see panic on spectators’ faces, and blood on the bull’s horns. (More bullfighting stories.)