Another got separated from the pack early in the race, did a U-turn and gored a nearby runner, lifting his body off the ground and creating moments of fear and tension.
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Another beast repeatedly tossed a man about before being lured away by other runners.
The animals took almost six minutes to reach the bullring at the end of the course, almost three and a half minutes more than the opening day on Thursday when no runners were gored.
The bulls used on Friday weighed between 530 and 650 kg (1,170-1,430 lbs). The nine-day world famous fiesta attracts thousands of foreign tourists every year. The bulls later face nearly certain death in afternoon bullfights.
In the southeastern village of Pedreguer near Valencia, a 28-year-old Spaniard was killed during a bull-run, in which people risk life and limb by racing alongside specially-bred fighting bulls through narrow streets.
Ten were gored in last year’s festival.
In all, 15 have died from being gored since record-keeping began in 1924.
Participants run ahead Jose Escolar Gil’s fighting bulls on the third day of the San Fermin bull run festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 9, 2016. Spanish bullfighter Eugenio de Mora gets his pants pierced by the horn of a Cebada Gago ranch fighting bull during a bullfight of the San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, Spain, Friday, July 8, 2016.
Spanish bullfighter Miguel Abellan performs with a Fuente Ymbro ranch fighting bull during a bullfight of the 2016 San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, Spain, Thursday, July 7, 2016. ― were gored during the Friday morning event.
The Running of the Bulls (in Spanish: encierro, from the verb encerrar, “to corral, to enclose”) is a practice that involves running in front of a small group of cattle, typically six, of the toro bravo breed that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town’s streets.
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San Fermin, held in honor of the patron saint of Pamplona, is not just about bulls running.
