Matador's face skewered by bull

THIS is the gory moment a Spanish bullfighter had his face ripped apart by a raging beast.

The 107-stone animal's horn tore through Juan Jose Padilla's face from his lower jaw to his eye-socket - emerging beside his protruding eyeball.

More than 20,000 spectators gasped in horror as the hulk picked him up by the face.

Padilla had slipped, leaving him at the mercy of the bull in the ring at Zaragoza, Spain.

He was rushed from the ring, his face covered in blood as he shouted: "I can't see, I can't see anything."
Padilla, 39, needed a five-hour op after suffering eye, bone, muscle and skin damage.   More Read

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