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TexasTowelie

(111,292 posts)
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 04:18 AM Jul 2019

2 runners gored racing with bulls at Pamplona's festival

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish officials say the opening bull run of this year’s San Fermin festival in the northern city of Pamplona has left at least five people injured, including two who were gored by bulls.

Red Cross spokesman José Aldaba says the most seriously injured were treated Sunday at the main regional hospital following the race, which lasted 2 minutes and 41 seconds.

The six bulls, accompanied by tame bullocks, ran together in a pack for most of the 850-meter (930-yard) course to the city’s bullring. One of them stumbled toward the end, causing panic and at least one goring when it charged at some racers.

The nine-day San Fermin fiesta, where the bulls are run every morning and killed in afternoon bullfights, draws around one million visitors annually.

https://yourvalley.net/yourvalley/your-life/travel/2-runners-gored-racing-with-bulls-at-pamplonas-festival/
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2 runners gored racing with bulls at Pamplona's festival (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2019 OP
Make that three runners gored. Eugene Jul 2019 #1
What's up with that? TexasTowelie Jul 2019 #2
This is a side of Spanish life I hate. Thyla Jul 2019 #3

Eugene

(61,592 posts)
1. Make that three runners gored.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 02:10 PM
Jul 2019
3 runners gored racing with bulls at Pamplona’s festival (Associated Press)

A 46-year old man from San Francisco was gored in the neck in the city’s bullring, at the end of the 850-meter (930-yard) course. His injuries required surgery, the regional government reported.

A 23-year old man from Florence, Kentucky and a 40-year-old Spanish man were both gored in the thigh. Two young Spanish men sustained head injuries.


https://apnews.com/97c8f10a60fa4de0b568821b99172ad7

Thyla

(791 posts)
3. This is a side of Spanish life I hate.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 02:18 PM
Jul 2019

One day they will ban this crap but it is a looong way off.

No sympathy for those injured or worse.

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