Photos: Thousands join Spain’s La Tomatina festival for epic tomato battle
- Thousands of revelers have packed into the narrow streets of Buñol in eastern Spain for La Tomatina, the town’s annual tomato-throwing festival that has become one of the country’s most distinctive summer attractions.
- For around an hour on Wednesday, trucks unloaded up to 165 tonnes of overripe tomatoes into the crowd as festival-goers, many in white T-shirts, hurled the fruit at each other to a soundtrack of blasting pop music.
- Authorities covered buildings with tarps ahead of the melee and deployed police, who at one point appeared to use pepper spray to disperse part of the crowd before the f
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- Thousands of revelers have packed into the narrow streets of Buñol in eastern Spain for La Tomatina, the town’s annual tomato-throwing festival that has become one of the country’s most distinctive summer attractions.
- For around an hour on Wednesday, trucks unloaded up to 165 tonnes of overripe tomatoes into the crowd as festival-goers, many in white T-shirts, hurled the fruit at each other to a soundtrack of blasting pop music.
- Authorities covered buildings with tarps ahead of the melee and deployed police, who at one point appeared to use pepper spray to disperse part of the crowd before the f
Sources: Al Jazeera