Doctors said the most worrying injury was the one to his chest as the bull’s horn had penetrated his lung cavity and broken a rib
A SPANISH matador is gravely ill in hospital after being gored three times a fortnight after Victor Barrio was killed in the ring.
Pablo Belando tried to walk out of Madrid’s famous Las Ventas bullring unaided after being hurt but ended up having to be hoisted in the air by colleagues and rushed to medics with pain etched on his face.
Today it emerged the 26-year-old from Murcia in south east Spain, was “very serious” after being gored in his chest, leg and buttocks.
He had an hour-long emergency op after being helped out of the ring.
Doctors said the most worrying injury was the one to his chest as the bull’s horn had penetrated his lung cavity and broken a rib.
The gore wound to his right leg is nearly eight inches long and the one to his gluteus, caused as the animal charged him while he lay prostrate on the ground after being upended, four inches long.
He is currently in intensive care in Madrid’s San Francisco de Asis Hospital after emergency medical care in a hospital next to the bullring.
The near-tragedy happened as Belando faced the second bullock - called Carretera which is Spanish for Road - during yesterday’s show at Las Ventas.
Victor Barrio, 29, died in a bullring in Teruel east of Madrid just over a fortnight ago after being gored in front of his wife Raquel.
He was pronounced dead after being rushed to an emergency hospital by the bullring.
He became the first man to die in the bullring in Spain for more than 30 years when 83-stone animal Lorenzo punctured his lug and severed his aorta in seconds.
Journalist Raquel, 32, revealed afterwards they had been planning to start a family.
Recalling in an interview the moment she reached the field hospital beside the bullring after her husband had been rushed away for emergency medical treatment, she said: “It was a nightmare.
“I was saying to myself, ‘It’s serious but he’s going to survive, he’s been gored, but nowadays no-one dies from being gored, there’ll be a solution.
“I thought he’d been gored in his right side and not in his heart.”
She also blasted bullfighting opponents who responded to Victor’s death with offensive tweets, calling for them to feel the full weight of the law.
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