2 Are Killed by Bulls in Spain
By CHRISTOPHER MELE and SANDRA E. GARCIA

A professional bullfighter was gored to death and a man was killed in a bull run in Spain on Saturday, while 13 other people were injured at the world-famous running of the bulls in Pamplona, according to news reports and a government website.

The matador, Victor Barrio, 29, was performing on live television in his first bullfight at Los Maños, a ring in Teruel, a town in eastern Spain, when a bull punctured his lung. He was treated by medical personnel at the scene but was pronounced dead at a hospital, according to the Spanish newspaper El Periódico.

Mr. Barrio began his career as a novillero, or a young bullfighter, in 2010.

His last post on Twitter, on July 4, featured a photo of him practicing with a calf captioned, “mind focused on #Teruel.” He is the first Spanish bullfighter to die in a ring in at least 16 years.

Separately, in Pedreguer, a southeastern village near Valencia, a 28-year-old Spaniard was killed in a bull run, during which people race with the animals through narrow streets.

A spokesman for the regional government said a bull’s horn pierced the man’s lung and heart as he was trying to help another runner, , Reuters reported.

The San Fermin festival in Pamplona, in which bulls chase red-scarved runners through the town’s cobbled streets, attracts thousands from Spain and overseas each year.

During the run on Saturday, 13 people were injured, five of them seriously, according to the local government website. A 33-year-old Japanese man was gored in the chest and a 24-year-old Spanish man was gored in the arm. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening, according to the website.

While the number of injuries at the festival has varied from year to year, it has increased by an average of about 5.1 percent each year since 1980, the website FiveThirtyEight reported last year.

The four-minute run in Pamplona featured six bulls from the Jose Escolar ranch. The daily bull run, along a 900-yard stretch of narrow streets in Pamplona’s old town, starts at 8 a.m. and usually lasts between three and five minutes. There are eight runs during the festival.

Since 1922, 15 people have died in Pamplona’s festival, which dates back hundreds of years, according to a count on the unofficial San Fermin website. The last death was recorded in 2009.

西班牙鬥牛士被牛戳死 電視直播

西班牙一名職業鬥牛士九日被牛角戳死，成為本世紀鬥牛士命喪鬥牛場的首例。另有一名西班牙人在一個小鎮「奔牛節」活動中被牛角戳死，在最知名的潘普羅納奔牛節則有十四人受傷，傷勢輕重不一。

在西班牙東部城鎮特魯埃爾，廿九歲的鬥牛士巴里歐九日表演鬥牛特別節目，五百廿九公斤重的猛牛「羅倫佐」本已腳步蹣跚，但巴里歐以紅布引誘「羅倫佐」攻擊時，猛牛突然撞到他的側面將他掀翻倒地，還持續猛戳他，牛角刺入他胸腔，助手趕上前搶救，但巴里歐已昏迷，送醫不治，整個過程不只現場觀眾親眼目睹，還有電視實況轉播。

巴里歐本來在高爾夫球場工作，二○一二年獲得職業鬥牛土資格而入行，名氣漸響，卻不幸成為這個世紀鬥牛士喪生鬥牛場的首例。

鬥牛是危險的運動，鬥牛士經常受傷，但近年來很少傳出在鬥牛場死亡。巴里歐是一九八五年以來西班牙第一個命喪鬥牛場的鬥牛士。

根據統計，廿世紀西班牙有一百卅四人死於牛角之下，包括卅三名鬥牛士和參加奔牛節活動喪生的人。鬥牛專家哈里森說，從一七○○年至今，西班牙有五百卅三個鬥牛士在場上送命。受傷的更多，僅在二○一三年，就有卅一個鬥牛士被牛角刺傷，傷勢從輕傷到險些送命。另外，同一年還有十六個鬥牛助理受傷。

西班牙各地每年仍舉行大約兩千場鬥牛，但在善待動物趨勢下，數目已下降。二○一○年，加泰隆尼亞繼加納利群島之後，成為西班牙第二個禁止鬥牛的地區。

另外，在西班牙東南部距離大城瓦倫西亞不遠的村落培德雷古爾，一名廿八歲西班牙人參加奔牛活動，在狹隘巷道奔跑中，他想協助另外一個參加者，結果自己被牛角戳入肺臟和心臟喪生。

每年夏季西班牙許多城鎮都會舉辦奔牛節活動，雖然年年傳出死傷，但參加者還是樂此不疲。其中最出名的是潘普羅納奔牛節，今年從七月六日到十四日持續九天，共要舉行八場奔牛，人群在八百廿五公尺長的狹窄曲折鋪石街巷跑給牛追，前後三至五分鐘，險象環生。

原文參照：
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/world/europe/bulls-in-spain-kill-2-and-gore-2-others.html

2016-07-11．聯合報．A11．國際．編譯彭淮棟