7 gored in hair-raising Pamplona’s bull run
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SIX foreigners, including three Americans, were among seven people gored in a hair-raising second running of the bulls yesterday at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival, the Navarra regional government said.
A 58-year-old Spaniard identified only by the initials F.L.R., a 73-year-old South African man identified as M.H.O. and a Canadian aged 48 with the initials P.C.O. were in serious condition after being gored, a government statement said.
The regional government said one American, 55 and identified by the initials P.G.O., and another aged 23 years with the initials W.R.O. were gored but their injuries were reported to be less serious. A third, 46-year-old American with the initials J.G.O. and an Indian aged 26 with the initials N.S.O. were also said to have suffered less serious goring injuries.
The regional government said nine others were also taken to city hospitals for other injuries suffered in the run.
Several of the six bulls used in the run got separated from the pack moments into the 8am run and began charging whatever came in sight.
One runner could be seen pulling a bull away by the horn to prevent him goring a woman and a man who had fallen to the ground. Another beast repeatedly tossed a man in the air before being lured away by other runners.
Over 1,000 people took part in the run, which lasted nearly six minutes, more than twice the normal running time.
The bulls yesterday weighed from 530 to 650 kilograms.
The nine-day fiesta became world famous with Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” and attracts thousands of foreign tourists.
Runners dash along with six bulls down a narrow 850-meter course from a holding pen to Pamplona’s bull ring. The bulls later face almost certain death in afternoon bullfights.
Bull runs are a traditional part of summer festivals across Spain.
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