A 30-year-old man was injured after being hit by a bull at Sakchi vegetable market late last evening. The victim, Mantu Kumar Gupta, who was a resident of North layout in Sonari was rushed to Tata Main Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries around midnight. The police recovered the body from the Tata Main Hospital and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem. The victim was married four years ago and father of two children, the younger one was just two-months-old.
The victim was a vegetable vendor was going away from his vegetable godown when two bulls were fighting nearby. Incidentally one of the bulls hit Gupta, and he fell down with the bike.
"It was a really a shocking sight. There were two bulls who were engaged in fighting. As the victim vendor was passing, one of the bulls hit him causing him to fall down. The next moment the other bull had attacked at the fallen vendor and injured him fatally ," said another shop-keeper who watched the scene from a distance at the vegetable market premises.
A resident of Mango said some people had picked up sticks to drive the bulls away so that they would have picked up and taken to the hospital. About 15 minutes later a police party from Sakchi police station arrived at the scene, but by that time the victim had been rushed to the hospital.
Officer-in-charge, Sakchi thana, Anjani Kumar Tiwary said they were aware of the bull attack, causing a vendor to sustain serious injured. But we were not aware that the man has succumbed to his injuries.