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PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — 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 Saturday.
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 city's 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 yards (meters) along the
ground, but was seen to get up and run away.
The gored runner, a
73-year-old Pamplona resident, was taken to a local hospital and five
others were treated for cuts and bruises, the regional government of the
province of Navarre said in a statement. Among those who received
medical attention were a 21-year-old Japanese person from the city of
Ikeda and a 26-year-old Australian national, the statement said.
The
San Fermin running of the bulls festival became world famous with the
publication of Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises." It is
also known around the world for its wild all-night street parties which
commemorate the city's patron saint.
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