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The year’s archetypal jallikattu successful Tiruchi territory held astatine Suriyur adjacent Tiruverumbur connected Friday near 64 persons injured.
Among the injured were 26 bull owners, 23 spectators, 13 bull tamers, a constabulary caput constable, and a location guard. Eleven of the injured were referred to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital successful Tiruchi for attraction portion the others received aesculapian attraction astatine the venue. Of the 11 referred to the hospital, 5 were bull owners, 3 bull-tamers, 2 spectators, and 1 location guard.
Collector V. Saravanan flagged disconnected the lawsuit and administered the oath to tamers. As galore arsenic 668 bulls were released, with astir 334 tamers participating successful 7 batches.
The lawsuit was held astatine the caller imperishable arena. The facility, which was inaugurated by Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin connected January 15, has been established connected astir 5 acres of onshore astatine a outgo of ₹3 crore by the Department of Youth Welfare and Sports Development.
The arena has a assemblage that tin accommodate implicit 800 spectators, with abstracted seats for the wide nationalist connected 1 broadside and lawsuit organisers, VIPs, and officials connected the other.
The jallikattu was concisely halted pursuing a clash betwixt 2 groups implicit attempts to tame the bulls. The lawsuit resumed aft the contented was resolved with constabulary intervention.
The erstwhile AIADMK Minister and Viralimalai MLA C. Vijayabaskar, during a property conference, urged the authorities acrophobic to cancel the online token strategy for registering bulls and tamers for jallikattu events, stating that it could unfairly contradict participation. He called upon the authorities to licence jallikattu successful each districts.
