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Sixty-four radical sustained injuries astatine jallikattu events held astatine Thirukkanoorpatti adjacent Thanjavur and Manjampatti adjacent Manapparai successful Tiruchi territory connected Saturday.
Forty bull tamers sustained injuries astatine the jallikattu organised arsenic portion of Saint Anthoniyar Pongal Festival astatine Thirukkanoorpatti. Two bulls died aft they collided against each different and different carnal sustained wounded connected its beforehand limb during the event.
More than 500 bulls and astir 400 tamers took portion successful the lawsuit which commenced astatine astir 7 a.m. connected Madhakovil street, Thirukkanoorpatti successful the beingness of Thirukkanoorpatti Parish clergyman S. Bernard and was flagged disconnected by Thanjavur Revenue Divisional Officer Nithya.
The bulls, which cleared the aesculapian test, were released from beneath the peculiar level enactment up connected Madhakovil thoroughfare and they ran done the 100 metre coir-spread thoroughfare towards Saint Anthoniyar Church, dogging the efforts of the tamers trying to clasp connected to their humps for 25 to 50 metres.
All injured persons were treated by the exigency aesculapian squad that was contiguous astatine the venue, sources said.
At Manjampatti, 24 persons were injured during the jallikattu. A full of 872 bulls were released during the lawsuit with 312 men participating. Twenty 4 persons, 11 tamers, 8 bull owners and 5 spectators were injured. Among the injured a bull proprietor was referred to the authorities hospital. The remaining were treated arsenic outpatients astatine the venue, according to constabulary sources.
