Overview
- A fighting bull fatally gored Santiago Barrero San Román during the San Marcos festival in Baes de Segura, on a stretch called Calle Palomares known locally as the 'street of hell'.
- Video and witness accounts describe the bull tossing and dragging him as onlookers tried to pull the animal away with a rope and take cover behind wooden barriers.
- Medics treated him at the scene and rushed him to a hospital, where he died about an hour later from severe injuries to his torso and groin.
- San Román was a young cattle breeder from a multigenerational ranching family who had recently launched his own project linked by local reports to the Torrestrella bloodline, and he leaves a pregnant wife and a young daughter.
- Festival organizers, the Hermandad de San Marcos, issued a condolence statement and led a minute's silence as events continued, with coverage noting recent severe gorings in Seville that have sharpened national attention on risk.