PAMPLONA, Spain – Eight runners were gored and at least 10 others were injured on Monday during the running of the bulls at this year’s San Fermin festival in northern Spain.
In the worst day of injuries so far this year, runners were upended from behind or trampled along the 930-yard route from corral to bullring that animals and runners covered in little more than three minutes Monday.
The most dangerous moments came at the end. Dozens of runners clogged the narrow entrance to the bullring, falling over one another and blocking the passage.
The dozen fighting bulls and generally docile steers – themselves being chased by hundreds of runners from behind the pack – had little choice but to run over or through the fallen crowd.
Among the injured was a 26-year-old man from New York who was gored in the left thigh and asked not to be identified, said Aurelio Lopez, a spokesman for Pamplona City Hall.
A Frenchman, 24, was gored in the right knee, Lopez said. Five Spaniards and one unidentified person also were gored.
Ten other runners were injured, among them 50-year-old Brian White from New York, who suffered a shoulder injury.
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