Spanish matador gored in the groin
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April 26, 2010, Monday
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ONE of Spain's top matadors was seriously injured in Mexico when a 500-kilogram bull gored him in the groin causing major blood loss, his manager said yesterday.
Jose Tomas received a transfusion of 8 liters of blood after being gored on Saturday in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes.
The bull's horn penetrated 10 centimeters into Tomas' groin and punctured a vein and an artery, said manager Salvador Boix.
Tomas has the rare A- blood type and bled so profusely that bullring officials appealed over the loudspeakers for compatible donors to come forward for transfusions, Boix said.
Mexican television footage shows Tomas working the animal with his cape when the bull makes a quick turn and catches him in the groin, lifting him into the air for a few seconds and shaking its head with Tomas dangling from its sharp left horn.
Once on the ground, a large, dark red stain was already spreading through his glittering gold suit.
Jose Tomas received a transfusion of 8 liters of blood after being gored on Saturday in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes.
The bull's horn penetrated 10 centimeters into Tomas' groin and punctured a vein and an artery, said manager Salvador Boix.
Tomas has the rare A- blood type and bled so profusely that bullring officials appealed over the loudspeakers for compatible donors to come forward for transfusions, Boix said.
Mexican television footage shows Tomas working the animal with his cape when the bull makes a quick turn and catches him in the groin, lifting him into the air for a few seconds and shaking its head with Tomas dangling from its sharp left horn.
Once on the ground, a large, dark red stain was already spreading through his glittering gold suit.
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