MADRID (AP) – An American youth is recovering in the intensive-care unit of a hospital in western Salamanca after being savagely gored during a bullfighting festival celebrating Carnival, officials said Sunday.
Surgeon Enrique Crespo said he was called to operate on 20-year-old Benjamin Miller from Georgia, who had been gored and tossed by a large fighting bull on Saturday, the first day of nearby Ciudad Rodrigo’s “Carnaval del Toro.”
“It’s not the worst injury I’ve seen, but it’s the biggest goring wound I’ve ever had to operate on,” Crespo told The Associated Press.
Miller underwent a three-hour operation to repair damage to thighs, sphincter and back muscles, Crespo said.
Town councilor Pedro Munoz said two other unidentified men had sustained less serious goring injuries during Saturday’s events.