PAMPLONA, Spain — Two tourists were injured in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona on Wednesday, when the annual bull-running festival was officially opened.
The two men were treated for concussion after jumping into a crowd from the top of a wall before the opening of the festival. They fell to the ground, instead of landing in the arms of people below.
The festival of San Fermin was officially opened at midday, when hundreds of thousands of onlookers watched as a small firework was fired from a balcony of the town hall.
The first of the week-long festival’s famous bull runs was to begin on Thursday morning. The animals are accompanied by daredevil runners, called mozos, along 825 meters of narrow old town passages to the bull ring.
A total of 15 people have died in the event since it began in 1900.
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