DISTRESSING FOOTAGE: Two Bulls Die After Colliding Head-On Before Bullfight

*WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE*

Footage has emerged showing two bulls dying after colliding during a bull fight at an arena in northern Spain.

The bulls died instantly from the force of their collision, keeling over on their backs after hitting each other head-on.

The incident occurred on Saturday after the two-ton bulls were let loose in front of crowds at Sanguesa in Navarra. They had been due to be involved in a bullfight with a matador.

Warning, graphic video...

Video credit: Youtube / Diario de Noticias da Madeira

In July TheLADbible reported that a Spanish bullfighter was gored to death on live TV as his friends and family watched on from the crowd.

Victor Barrio, 29, was killed after an 87-stone bull punctured his lung and severed an aorta during the bullfight in Teruel, Aragon in eastern Spain.

Barrio was the first matador to die since 1985.

Bullfighting remains a controversial sport in Spain, with animal rights protestors claiming the sport should be banned.

In July 2010, Catalonia's Parliament banned bullfighting and, in May 2013, the Mexican state of Sonora did the same. The number of bullfights that occur each year are on the decline.

When you see footage like that, it just shows how senseless it all is.

Image credit: Youtube / Diario de Noticias da Madeira

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Topics: Death, Spain

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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