18 Jun, 2017 @ 11:59
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‘Hurry up, I’m dying!’: Last words of Spanish bullfighter gored to death after tripping on cape

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SPANISH bullfighter Ivan Fandino has died after being gored by a bull in southern France.

The 36-year-old was entertaining a crowd in Aire-sur-l’Adour yesterday when he tripped on his cape and fell to the floor.

The bull swiftly gored him savagely in his right flank.

The Basque bullfighter, from Bilbao, was rushed to a nearby hospital after undergoing an emergency procedure at the bullring, but he was announced dead on arrival.

His last words are said to have been ‘Hurry up, I’m dying!’ as he was being rushed to the hospital.

He is the second Spanish bullfighter to die in 12 months after the death of Victor Barrio last July.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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8 Comments

  1. Fantastic. I Only wish he’d died a slower more painful death, like the bulls do in this pathetic ‘sport’. May this scene be repeated many times until Spaniards finally make it into the 21st century along with everyone else.

    Bull 1: Spanish Twat: 0

  2. Hello Dave. What you need to do, mate, is translate your comment into Spanish, practice a bit, and then wheel it out into the street. Otherwise, I don’t know what to make of you.

  3. I don’t care if you ‘reject animal cruelty’ (in a discussion about bullfighting), and you have every right to feel as you do (as do I to support the spectacle in a country where it is legal and popular). I think, however, that celebrating the death of a fellow human being, in print, is an abomination.

  4. these people are not human beings…..they are the murdering slaughterers of innocent animals……these people are barbaric backward cowards…….bull fighting cannot be glorified in anyway….they deserve all they get

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