Dozens of people have been trampled in Spain’s Pamplona bull run when they were trapped at the narrow entrance to the bullring.
Huge crowds of thrill-seekers got a scare as they fled fighting bulls charging through the city in the opening run of Spain’s San Fermin festival.
Four men have been gored and dozens more treated for varying injuries in Pamplona, Spain after eight days of bull runs at the San Fermin festival.
A bull gored a man to death on Friday at the traditional Running of the Bulls fiesta in the Spanish city of Pamplona, authorities said.
Hundreds of animal rights campaigners on Thursday protested against the annual bull runs due to begin on Saturday in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona. Demonstrators, numbering about 1 500, dressed in nothing but underwear carried posters reading ”Torture is not culture”.
At least 14 people were injured during the annual ”running of the bulls” festival in Pamplona, Spain, on Monday. Among those injured were two United States citizens, a French national and a visitor from Colombia. The festival, made world-famous by writer Ernest Hemingway, comes to an end on Wednesday.
Bulls gored one runner and trampled several others on Friday during the running of the bulls at this year’s San Fermin festival. All along the 82m route, which runs along narrow cobblestone streets from a corral to a bull ring, runners in the popular festival were knocked off their feet, pushed against the thick wooden barricades lining the streets, or trampled.