Twelve injured as bulls run amok during ‘jallikattu’ near Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh

One person was critically injured when a bull dragged him up to a distance of 200 feet

Twelve persons, mostly youth, were injured, one of them critically, when a herd of bulls ran amok at the ‘pasuvula parasa’ (popularly known as ‘jallikattu’), at Chekkunattam village of Kuppam mandal on Sunday evening.

The critically injured person was dragged by a bull up to a distance of 200 feet after a rope got entangled in his legs. He was admitted to PES Medical College Hospital in Kuppam.

The event was conducted by a group of youth belonging to the TDP. In fact, when the TDP cadre took the proposal to the notice of Kuppam in-charge and MLC Kancharla Srikanth last week, he was said to have advised them to stay away from organising such events, contending that they would only tarnish the image of the party should there be any untoward incident.