Hard documentation: dead and dozens injured in stadium collapse in bullfight in Colombia

Documentation from Espinal in Colombia shows a wooden structure collapsing during a show to the general public, according to reports there are at least four dead and about 70 injured.

Documentation from the event shows that the show is in full swing when suddenly the structure collapses into the arena and the participants miraculously

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27/06/2022

Monday, 27 June 2022, 06:44

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Course stadium during a bullfight in Colombia (news agencies)

The moment of the collapse in the stadium (Photo: screenshot,.)

At least four people have been killed and about 70 injured in a building collapse at the stadium where a bullfight broke out in the city of El Espinal in Colombia, local authorities in the country said last night (Sunday).

"There are currently four dead, two women, a man and a child," said county governor Jose Ricardo Orozco.

Documentation from the incident shows the bullfighting in full swing, when suddenly the building collapses into the arena.

A senior local security official, Luis Fernando Wells, said no one was trapped in the rubble, and a number of people reported missing were located.

He further said that emergency vehicles were sent to the scene from the nearby towns of Ibag and Melger to help evacuate the many wounded, who were evacuated to the city hospital.

He noted that he did not know what the collapsed structure was made of, but it was probably wooden boards.

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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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