Indian participants try to control a bull during the annual 'Jallikattu' bulltaming festival in the village of Palamedu on the outskirts of Madurai, India, on Jan. 15, 2018. Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images
At least five men were gored to death during an Indian festival that includes men attempting to tame bulls with their bare hands.
Bull-taming, or Jallikattu, has been practiced in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu for at least 500 years and similar customs date back perhaps thousands of years, The Hindu reported.
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