Multiple fatalities after stadium collapses during Colombia bullfight

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The incident occurred during a 'corraleja', an event where members of the public jump into the ring to run alongside the bulls. 9News

Video shows the moment the wooden framework crumbled at the improvised stadium in El Espinal in Tolima, where annual San Juan and San Pedro festivities were underway.

Major Luis Fernando Vélez, director of the civil defence department, told a local radio station "there is talk of 500 wounded" following the incident. "Once the emergency became known, the relief agencies acted immediately, achieving the evacuation of the injured for primary care at the San Rafael Hospital in the municipality."

 

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To hell with people that pay to witness an animal being tortured to death.

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