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Spanish town blushes with annual tomato fight
Spanish revelers have pelted each with 113 tons of ripe tomatoes in an annual food fight.
Town hall says an estimated 40,000 people took part in the hour of messy fun in the village of Bunol near
The ritual dates back to the 1940s.
Some warriors in today's battle wore swimming goggles to protect themselves from the acid sting of projectiles in the form of pear-shaped tomatoes. Others swatted them away with tennis rackets.
Afterward, many washed off in a nearby river while crews hosed down a town painted red.
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