This is the horror moment an elderly woman was stabbed to death by a rampaging bull as she crossed a square during a Spanish festival.
The 60-year-old, who was wearing a red dress, was knocked unconscious when she hit her head on the ground after being attacked.
Bystanders rushed to her aid and took her to a safer area before emergency services made desperate attempts to save her life.
The woman, who has not yet been named, is said to have suffered a bloody armpit wound but tragically died when she was rushed to hospital.
The incident happened during an annual festival in the Spanish town of Enguera, close to the east coast city of Valencia.
A 60-year-old woman was knocked unconscious and gored by a rampaging bull and later died on the way to hospital
Bystanders rushed to her aid and took her to a safer area before emergency services made desperate attempts to save her life
Footage of the sickening moment she was knocked to the ground appeared to show that she had become distracted and wandered towards the area where the bull had been released so revelers could try to avoid it.
The city council responded by canceling some of the events linked to the patron saint’s festivities after what it described as a “tragic incident”, when critics online questioned the security measures that had allowed the woman to enter the area unchallenged could wander into where she lived. lost her life.
Enguera’s mayor Matilde Marin said the city was in a “state of shock.”
Yesterday afternoon’s tragedy occurred five days after a 74-year-old man was killed and three people, including a young girl, were injured when a bull attacked them in Pantoja, near Toledo, south of Madrid.
The animal attacked them after escaping from an enclosed area set up for partygoers as part of a Running of the Bulls-style event.
Last September, a senior director of Spanish ceramic wall and floor tiles company Pamesa was mauled to death by a bull at a festival near Valencia.
Jose Antonio Subies, 61, died in a hospital in the city after suffering blood injuries that affected his liver and one of his lungs.
He was the CEO of Pamesa’s South American group.
Mr Subies’ 63-year-old friend, Vicente Fontestad, director of a citrus fruit company, was injured after being attacked by the same bull and had to be rushed to hospital for leg surgery.
Footage of the drama showed the two men being lifted into the air by the bull, named Cocinero, which translates into English as Cook, after it was released onto the street in La Pobla de Fornals, near Valencia.
Events using bulls called Bous al Correr, where revelers try to avoid the animals when they are released into the streets, remain hugely popular in the Valencia region, which includes the provinces of Castellon, Valencia and Alicante.
Many deaths have occurred over the years at events like this, where partygoers have been gored or knocked down by bulls and hit their heads on the ground.