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Two people were gored Thursday during a second running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin fiesta, and at least five other people were hospitalized after falling or being t--rampled by the animals, officials said.
Television images showed the first runner, a 22-year-old Spaniard, being gored in the chest and hurled like a rag doll to the cobblestones of one of the narrow streets where the bull run takes place in Pamplona's historical old quarter. He remained on the ground dazed until rescue workers took him away.
A 43-year-old man from Dublin, Ireland, was gored in the left leg.
An unidentified man is attacked during Spain's annual bull running Thursday. (Alvaro Barrientos/Associated Press)
Thousands took part in the dash to keep ahead of six fighting bulls and six bell-tinkling steers tasked with keeping the beasts together along the 850-metre course from a holding pen to the northern town's bull ring.
The run lasted less than four minutes and produced panic when some bulls separated from the pack.
Five more people were hospitalized in Pamplona for less serious injuries, mostly broken bones and bruises sustained in falls as they ran, though the images clearly showed other people being xxxxxled.
They included a 49-year-old American, a 33-year-old Israeli and three Spaniards, the Navarra regional government said.
An American was also injured Wednesday in another event during the San Fermin party in which calves are released into a bullring to be taunted by young men.
The unidentified 22-year-old man sustained a ripped scrotum from a horn injury, El Diario de Navarra said. He received a stitch at the bull ring from emergency workers and was hospitalized, according to the newspaper, which did not list his hometown.
(Hate when that happens!!!)
While gorings from the adult bulls with their huge horns are more likely to be fatal or cause serious injuries, the calves are also dangerous because they are more frisky, moving around the ring rapidly.
The runs are broadcast live on Spanish television and the bulls that run each morning are killed in the evening in the bull ring, their meat served up in Pamplona's restaurants.
Dozens of people are injured in the runs each year.
Gorings produce the most dramatic injuries and generate extensive comment and analysis in Spain's media, though most runners who end up hurt fall or are t-rampled. Last year's festival saw the first fatal goring in nearly 15 years.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/0...ing-spain.html
Television images showed the first runner, a 22-year-old Spaniard, being gored in the chest and hurled like a rag doll to the cobblestones of one of the narrow streets where the bull run takes place in Pamplona's historical old quarter. He remained on the ground dazed until rescue workers took him away.
A 43-year-old man from Dublin, Ireland, was gored in the left leg.
An unidentified man is attacked during Spain's annual bull running Thursday. (Alvaro Barrientos/Associated Press)
Thousands took part in the dash to keep ahead of six fighting bulls and six bell-tinkling steers tasked with keeping the beasts together along the 850-metre course from a holding pen to the northern town's bull ring.
The run lasted less than four minutes and produced panic when some bulls separated from the pack.
Five more people were hospitalized in Pamplona for less serious injuries, mostly broken bones and bruises sustained in falls as they ran, though the images clearly showed other people being xxxxxled.
They included a 49-year-old American, a 33-year-old Israeli and three Spaniards, the Navarra regional government said.
An American was also injured Wednesday in another event during the San Fermin party in which calves are released into a bullring to be taunted by young men.
The unidentified 22-year-old man sustained a ripped scrotum from a horn injury, El Diario de Navarra said. He received a stitch at the bull ring from emergency workers and was hospitalized, according to the newspaper, which did not list his hometown.
(Hate when that happens!!!)
While gorings from the adult bulls with their huge horns are more likely to be fatal or cause serious injuries, the calves are also dangerous because they are more frisky, moving around the ring rapidly.
The runs are broadcast live on Spanish television and the bulls that run each morning are killed in the evening in the bull ring, their meat served up in Pamplona's restaurants.
Dozens of people are injured in the runs each year.
Gorings produce the most dramatic injuries and generate extensive comment and analysis in Spain's media, though most runners who end up hurt fall or are t-rampled. Last year's festival saw the first fatal goring in nearly 15 years.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/0...ing-spain.html
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