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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Spanish region urges ‘respect for bulls’ after seven deaths at fiestas

Sueca bous al carrer
A festival goer in Sueca, near Valencia, flees a bull known to have killed three people during an earlier Bous al Carrer festival. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Authorities in the eastern Spanish region of Valencia are calling on festival goers not to “lose respect for bulls” after seven people were killed by the animals during this year’s Bous al Carrer bull-running fiestas.

The summer festivities – which translate as “bulls on the street”, and which are held in towns and villages across Valencia – have also resulted in more than 300 injuries in the past two months.

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