Civil Guards try to calm revellers as the Tomatina festival prepaers to get underway on August 31, 2011 in Bunol, Spain.
Revellers throw tomatoes from a truck as the fruit throwing gets underway. An estimated 120 tonnes of tomatoes were thrown during the day.
Crowds crush into each other as people run to the piles of fruit as fast as they can.
People have no place to the hide as they are pinned up against building walls as the barrage of fruit continues to fall.
People frantically scoop up more fruit as more tomatoes are delivered on a truck during the course of the day.
One unfortunate man slips to the ground and becomes a target for hundreds of tomato throwers,.
A girl accepts her fate as a tomato is splattered across her head.
After the majority of tomatoes are gone the streets run red with the juices.