Madrid: The manager for one of Spain's top bullfighters says the matador is in serious condition after suffering a horrendous goring during a fight in Mexico.
Manager Salvador Boix said matador Jose Tomas lost up to eight litres of blood after a nearly 500-kilogram bull named Navegante gored him in the left groin on Saturday in the city of Aguascalientes, penetrating four inches and puncturing a vein and an artery.
Boix spoke to Spanish radio station Cadena Ser yesterday.
Tomas has a relatively rare blood type — ‘A-' — and bled so profusely that bullring officials appealed over the arena loudspeakers for compatible donors to come forward, Boix said.
Tomas was operated on immediately at the bullring and then again at a hospital for more than three hours.
Mexican television footage aired on the website of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo shows Tomas working the animal with his cape when the bull makes a quick turn toward the matador 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.
