Documentation from Colombia: At least 5 killed and 500 wounded in stadium collapse during bullfight
Photographs from Espinal in Colombia show a wooden structure collapsing during a show to the general public.
Local media reports indicate that there are already several dead and hundreds injured.
Documentation from the event shows participants in the event provoking the bull, and a moment later the other spectators fall into the arena
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26/06/2022
Sunday, 26 June 2022, 23:44 Updated: 23:57
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At least five people were killed and 500 were injured in a stadium collapse in Colombia.
Documentation from the incident shows that the incident took place during a bullfighting show.
Many participants challenge the bull, and a moment later the wooden structure of the spectators collapses.
In October 2012, 19 people, including two seriously, were injured among bulls that got out of control in Colombia.
As part of the violent tradition, known in Colombia as "corla", amateur bullfighters tend to drink to drunkenness, then jump into the arena and tease bulls.
"It certainly does not scare me, because if I had been scared I would not have entered the arena," explained one of the bullfighters, Luis Ariata.
"This is my job, to finish the month."
The popular bullfights in Colombia have claimed the lives of many spectators and participants in recent years.
The warriors, however, resist.
"I serve as a deputy fighter, my colleague is a veteran fighter, and whoever wants to get rid of bullfights is just fighting tradition, and that can't happen," said David Gonzalez, also a bullfighter.
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