A man has succumbed to his injuries after being gored by a bull during a festival in eastern Spainthe authorities announced today.

The victim, who has not been named, gored in the ribs by the bull Cotinero at the festival of the city of Pobla de Farnals, Valencia, on Saturday. He was taken to a hospital where he breathed his last a little later.

A second Spaniard he was gored on the leg by the same bull during the bull run through the streets of the city and is hospitalized in stable condition.

In these festivals, bulls are left on city streets while people run in front of them, a tradition observed in at least 1,820 cities in Spain each year, according to a recent survey by animal rights groups AnimaNaturalis and CAS International. The festivals remain very popular, although many activists describe them as dangerous and brutal. In recent years, the proposal to ban them has been discussed.