Overview
- Tamil Nadu’s first major event at Thatchankurichi in Pudukottai was opened by ministers S. Regupathy and Siva V. Meyyanathan, with District Collector M. Aruna administering an oath to tamers.
- Reports differ on participation, with sources citing roughly 600 to over 900 bulls and about 300 tamers, and registrations far exceeding those cleared after medical and veterinary screening.
- Police, medical and veterinary resources were deployed at scale, including more than 250 police personnel, seven mobile medical teams, five veterinary teams and multiple ambulances positioned near the arena.
- One outlet reported 78 people injured at Thatchankurichi, including four tamers with major injuries referred for higher care, and said a few bulls were also treated for injuries.
- The season began a day earlier in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati district, where police and hospital officials reported three to five injuries at a local event that drew about 200 bulls from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.