‘Hurry Up, I’m Dying’: Final Words of Fatally Gored Matador Are Revealed

‘Hurry Up, I’m Dying’: Final Words of Fatally Gored Matador Are Revealed
Spanish matador Ivan Fandino performs a pass to a bull during the San Isidro Feria at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid on June 4, 2014. ALBERTO SIMON/AFP/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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A Spanish matador who was gored to death by a bull in France after he stepped on his own cloak apparently uttered his final words right after the incident unfolded.

“Hurry up, I’m dying,” Ivan Fandino told others as he was being rushed to a nearby hospital, The Independent reported.

Fandino, 36, was impaled by a bull after he slipped up on his cape on Saturday.

“I can’t believe it. None of us understand how it could have happened; it was all so fast. The bull knocked him down with its hindquarters and he fell face down,” matador Juan del Alamo was quoted as saying.

Spanish matador Ivan Fandino holds the ear of a Baltasar Iban bull during a bullfight at Aire sur Adour arena southwestern France, on June 17, 2017. (IROZ GAIZKA/AFP/Getty Images)
Spanish matador Ivan Fandino holds the ear of a Baltasar Iban bull during a bullfight at Aire sur Adour arena southwestern France, on June 17, 2017. IROZ GAIZKA/AFP/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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