Iván Fandiño, Spanish Bullfighter, Dies After Goring
Spanish bullfighter Iván Fandiño died on Saturday at the Mont-de-Marsan Hospital in southwest France, where he had been admitted after suffering a serious goring during a bullfight in the town of Aire-sur-l'Adour, according to sources from the bullfighting circles.
The hospital did not want to confirm the news, invoking medical confidentiality, and announced that it will release a statement later.
The 36-year-old matador was injured while making a pass to one of the bulls from his compatriot, Juan del Álamo. When trying to execute the pass, his feet got tangled in his cape and he fell to the ground where he suffered a goring in his lung.
Earlier, in his first performance of the afternoon, he had cut off an ear.
The Basque bullfighter, originally from Orduna, near Bilbao, had been invited to the bullfights of the festivities in Aire-sur-l'Adour, alongside Juan Del Álamo and the Frenchman Thomas Dufau, to fight bulls from the Spanish breeding farm, Baltasar Ibán.