Police investigating incident after Campanito the bull forced its way out of ring and injured two people

Police in Spain are investigating after a half-tonne fighting bull pushed its way out of a bullring – injuring two people as it charged through the streets of a small town in central Spain – before being reportedly rammed to death by a car.

The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday as many in the village of Brihuega, population 2,400, had gathered in the local bullring to take in a concurso de recortadores, in which participants take turns jumping, twirling and manoeuvring around a bull or heifer in hopes of being deemed the most “courageous” in the ring.

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