Beja: LuÃs Cruz, former bullfighting rider killed by tractor loader.
The former rider and current manager bullfighting industry and agriculture, She died yesterday morning in Mars Homestead, in Valley Rossins, parish Salvada (Beja) following an accident involving a tractor.
The warning was given by the victim's father, Joaquim Cruz, owner of the property, cerca the 11,00 hours, and the accident occurred when Luis Cruz, 51 year old, um downloaded "bigbags" of adubo. Has learned the Lidador News (LN) the front loader tractor, that would not be engaged with the locking pin, It is detached and hit him in the head, palming it against a fertilizer spreader, taking the victim had immediate death.
The old knight, who took the alternative in Beja, in 10 August 1988, having as godfather, John Moura, It was festival organizer taurine in collapsible square that both had, together with José Luis Zambujeira, old cable pitchforks group of Cascais and rider Tito Semedo.
About 30 year old, father of Louis Cruz, He had lost his right arm following another farm accident, when to try clearing a baler, the machine amputated his upper limb.
On site were the Fire and VMER Hospital of Beja and the GNR of Salvada post. The body of Luis Cruz was transferred to the morgue of Medical Staff- Legal Beja, where it will be autopsied.
During the week there were two fatal accidents involving tractors, one in Viana do Castelo and the other in Bragança.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
