30 skadade vid explosion nära tjurfäktningsarena
Omkring 30 personer, huvudsakligen poliser, skadades i samband med en explosion intill en tjurfäktningsarena i Bogotá i Colombia. Enligt AFP är två personer svårt skadade, men det har också funnits uppgifter om att en polis dödats.
Explosionen inträffade samtidigt som djurrättsaktivister förberedde en marsch. Tjurfäktningsarenan har hållits stängd i tre år på grund av ett förbud mot tjurfäktning, men öppnandes nyligen vilket lett till protester. Det var sent på söndagskvällen ännu oklart om explosionen kan kopplas till protesterna.
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Wikipedia (en)
Bullfighting is a physical contest that generally involves humans attempting to publicly subdue, immobilise, or kill a bull, usually according to a set of rules, guidelines, or cultural expectations. Although people commonly think of Spanish-style bullfighting as representative of bullfighting, there are many different forms and varieties in various locations around the world. Some forms involve dancing around or over a cow or bull, or attempting to grasp an object from the animal.
Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of many countries including Spain, Portugal, parts of southern France, India and Tanzania, and some Latin American countries (Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru). While some forms are sometimes considered to be a blood sport, in some countries, for example Spain, it is defined as an art form or cultural event and relevant regulatory frameworks which assimilate it to other cultural events and heritage.
In some locations, a particular breed of cattle, the Spanish Fighting Bull, is used for bullfighting. These bulls must be bred in large ranches, and in conditions as similar as possible to the way they would behave in the wild.
There are many historic fighting venues in the Iberian Peninsula, France and Latin America. The largest venue of its kind is the Plaza México in central Mexico City, which seats 48,000 people, and the oldest are the Plazas of Béjar and Ronda, in the Spanish provinces of Salamanca and Málaga.
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