A 64-year-old man had been gored in the groin at a running of the bulls event.
The mammal had just been released from its pen when it took the local man by surprise a few yards down the road.
Horror footage shows how the muscular bovid charged towards its victim at breakneck speed.
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Before the man had a chance to react, the bull picked him up with one of its horns from the other side of a metal barrier.
The man was held in the air for several agonising seconds as powerless spectators gasped in shock.
After the bull dumped him onto the ground, onlookers rushed to pick him up.
The horror unfolded on Monday (16 Sep) in La Vall d’Uixó, north-east of Valencia, Spain.
Running of the bulls is an event that involves running in front of a small group of bulls, typically six, but sometimes ten or more, that have been let loose on sectioned-off streets in a town.
It usually takes place as part of a summertime festival.
The victim, identified as F.M.N., received entry and exit wounds in the goring, which had an upward trajectory.
An onsite medical team, as well as two doctors who were at the event as spectators, gave him first aid.
He was conscious when he was taken to a hospital in nearby Villarreal, as reported by Need To Know.
Luckily, the bull’s horn had missed all his major blood vessels.
But his scrotum was “affected” by the horn’s “entry into the left inguinal area above the sphincter”, according to the medical report.
Local media reported on Monday that he would undergo surgery.
The incident follows the death of a 57-year-old man in hospital in May, seven weeks after he was gored twice during a bullfight in Vall d’Uixó.
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