PAMPLONA, Spain — Bulls gored four runners, seriously injuring two of them, during a packed running of the bulls on the sixth day of the San Fermin festival Sunday.
One man, a Pamplona resident, was caught in the chest and legs when a large bull became separated from the pack on the slippery cobblestone streets leading to the bullring.
The bull, a Miura weighing 1,268 pounds, jerked the 44-year-old runner upward and then rolled him along the ground in the entrance to the ring. Miuras are the largest and most famous of Spain’s fighting bulls.
Another man, a 56-year-old from nearby Rioja, was caught under the jaw by a horn.
The sixth running of the bulls at the annual festival was held two days after a 27-year-old man was gored to death.
Six people who were not gored were treated for other injuries Sunday, including one man who apparently broke his ankle.
Medical services spokesman Dr. Fernando Boneta said hospital staff did not currently rate any case as life-threatening. One man who was gored in the upper thorax and thigh had been successfully stabilized, Boneta said.
Bulls are at their most dangerous when the pack splits up, leaving individual animals disoriented and irritated by the large crowds traditionally clad in white, with red bandana neckerchiefs and cummerbunds.
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