According to multiple Italian news outlets, the bloody incident occurred on Friday, May 2, with the unidentified 47-year-old man, who’s also a resident of Taiwan, found hanging on the metal bars at the Piazza del Colosseo, piercing his spine.

An American tourist slipped while climbing a spiked fence to take a photo at the Colosseum and required surgery.

An American tourist suffered an extreme and horrific injury while trying to climb a barrier in the Colosseum to take a photograph.