Madrid: A matador has been fatally gored in Spain during a bullfight in an eastern town, the first professional bullfighter to be killed in the ring in more than three decades. The 29-year-old Victor Barrio was pronounced dead late on Saturday by a surgeon at the Teruel bullring. Barrio was first gored in the thigh by the 1,166-pound bull's left horn and his body was flipped over.

He was gored a second time in the chest and the blow penetrated a lung and his aorta as the matador was on the ground. He was the first professional matador to die during a bullfight in Spain since 1985. Meanwhile, half-tonne fighting bulls gored two Spanish men on Sunday as thousands of red-scarved daredevils sprinted down narrow dew-slicked streets in Pamplona’s annual running of the bulls.

A total of eleven men have been gored in the four bull runs held so far this year in Pamplona, including an Indian, three Americans, a Japanese national, a Canadian and a South African. The daily bull-run along an 825-metre stretch of narrow streets in Pamplona's old town starts at 8 am and usually lasts between three and five minutes. There are eight runs in total during the festival. Over the past century 15 people have died in Pamplona’s event.