6 hurt in first Pamplona bull run
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July 8, 2012, Sunday
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ONE elderly thrill-seeker was gored in a leg and five others slightly injured as thousands of adrenaline-fueled runners raced ahead of six fighting bulls in the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona in the first running of the bulls of this year's San Fermin festival, officials said yesterday.
Runners, in traditional white clothing and red kerchiefs around their necks, tripped over each other or fell in the mad daredevil annual rush along early morning dew-moistened slippery streets to the bull ring.
One youth got the top of his shirt and kerchief caught on a bull's horn, inches from his face, and was dragged several meters along the ground, but managed to escape.
The gored runner, a 73-year-old Pamplona resident, was taken to hospital and five others were treated for cuts and bruises, the regional government of the province of Navarre said.
The San Fermin running of the bulls festival became world famous with the publication of American author Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."
Runners, in traditional white clothing and red kerchiefs around their necks, tripped over each other or fell in the mad daredevil annual rush along early morning dew-moistened slippery streets to the bull ring.
One youth got the top of his shirt and kerchief caught on a bull's horn, inches from his face, and was dragged several meters along the ground, but managed to escape.
The gored runner, a 73-year-old Pamplona resident, was taken to hospital and five others were treated for cuts and bruises, the regional government of the province of Navarre said.
The San Fermin running of the bulls festival became world famous with the publication of American author Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."
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