Two people have been gored on the fourth day of the San Fermin festival in northern Spain, where bulls chase red-scarved runners through the streets of Pamplona.
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The five injuries took the tally from the four runs that have taken place so far during the San Fermin festival to almost 40. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part in some of the eight days of the running of the bulls.
Navarra Hospital Dr. Jon Ariceta said four people were taken to city hospitals with contusions.
A government statement said a 33-year-old Japanese man and a 24-year-old Spaniard were gored.
The daily runs see people dashing with six bulls along a winding, 850-metre (more than half a mile) course through narrow streets to the city’s bull ring, where the animals are killed by professional matadors in an afternoon bullfight.
It was initially thought only three runners had suffered head injuries during the run which started at 8am local time.
The nine-day fiesta became world famous with Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” and attracts thousands of foreign tourists.
In all, 15 have died from being gored since record-keeping began in 1924.
Bull runs are a traditional part of summer festivals across Spain, and dozens of people are injured each year.
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In the early hours of yesterday morning a 29-year-old reveller was killed after being gored by a heifer during a bull-run at an annual festival at Pedreguer near Valencia.
